Ian Akyildiz & Xudong Wang 
Wireless Mesh Networks 

Going beyond classic networking principles and architectures for
better wireless performance

Written by authors with vast experience in academia and
industry, Wireless Mesh Networks provides its readers with a
thorough overview and in-depth understanding of the
state-of-the-art in wireless mesh networking. It offers guidance on
how to develop new ideas to advance this technology, and how to
support emerging applications and services. The contents of the
book follow the TCP/IP protocol stack, starting from the physical
layer. Functionalities and existing protocols and algorithms for
each protocol layer are covered in depth. The book is written in an
accessible textbook style, and contains supporting materials such
as problems and exercises to assist learning.

Key Features:

* Presents an in-depth explanation of recent advances and open
research issues in wireless mesh networking, and offers concrete
and comprehensive material to guide deployment and product
development

* Describes system architectures and applications of wireless
mesh networks (WMNs), and discusses the critical factors
influencing protocol design

* Explores theoretical network capacity and the state-of-the-art
protocols related to WMNs

* Surveys standards that have been specified and standard drafts
that are being specified for WMNs, in particular the latest
standardization results in IEEE 802.11s, 802.15.5, 802.16 mesh
mode, and 802.16 relay mode

* Includes an accompanying website with PPT-slides, further
reading, tutorial material, exercises, and solutions

Advanced students on networking, computer science, and
electrical engineering courses will find Wireless Mesh
Networks an essential read. It will also be of interest to
wireless networking academics, researchers, and engineers at
universities and in industry.

About the author

Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz is Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor in Telecommunications, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory. Current research interests are Sensor Networks, Inter Planetary Internet, Wireless Networks, Satellite Networks and Next Generation Internet. ?Ian has published over 200 journal and conference papers, is Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks and Ad Hoc Networks Journals (Elsevier), and an Editor for ACM-Kluwer Journal of Wireless Networks. Ian is an IEEE Fellow (1996) with the citation: ‘For contributions to performance analysis of computer communication networks, ‘ and an ACM Fellow (1997) ‘for fundamental research contributions in: finite capacity queuing network models; performance evaluation of Time Warp parallel simulations; traffic Control in ATM networks, and mobility management in wireless networks’.

Dr. Xudong Wang is Senior Research Engineer at KIYON Inc., where he conducts research and development of MAC, routing, and transport protocols for wireless mesh networks. Research interests also include software radios, cross-layer design, communication protocols for cellular networks, mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and ultra-wideband networks. He has two patents pending in wireless mesh networks. He is technical committee member of several international conferences, has been a reviewer for numerous international journals, and is guest editor for the Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networking in IEEE Wireless Communications.