Connection management over an ethernet based wireless mesh network

In this paper we discuss the Wireless Mesh Network developed in the scope of the IBBT Wireless Building Automation project. This WMN is designed as a high datarate wireless backbone interconnection between the other wireless networks used in the WBA architecture. We will demonstrate that switched Ethernet is a technology that, with minimal effort, can be used as a base for WMNs. We will also talk about the distributed optimizations that were implemented and combined to boost network performance. We will introduce the novel concept of Connection Management, introducing network engineering techniques in the Wireless Mesh domain for the first time. Finally, the testbed used for deployment will be explained, and some results of tests performed in a real-life environment will we discussed.

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