Performance Evaluation of WMNs by WMN-PSOSA-DGA Hybrid Simulation System Considering Stadium Distribution of Mesh Clients and Different Number of Mesh Routers

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are gaining a lot of attention from researchers due to their advantages such as easy maintenance, low upfront cost, and high robustness. Connectivity and stability directly affect the performance of WMNs. However, WMNs have some problems such as node placement problem, hidden terminal problem and so on. In our previous work, we implemented a simulation system to solve the node placement problem in WMNs considering Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Simulated Annealing (SA) and Distributed Genetic Algorithm (DGA), called WMN-PSOSA-DGA. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of WMNs by using the WMN-PSOSA-DGA hybrid simulation system considering the Stadium distribution of mesh clients. Simulation results show that 32 mesh routers are enough for maximizing the network connectivity and user coverage.

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