J. Bicket, D. Aguayo, S. Biswas, R. Morris, "Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network," ACM Mobicom Conference, (September 2005). [PDF]

Summary

Planning and deployment of a large wireless mesh network in a urban area is complex, time-consuming, and expensive . This paper argues that an unplanned wireless mesh network with commodity hardware … Continue Reading ››

Andrei Gurtov, Sally Floyd, "Modeling Wireless Links for Transport Protocols," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Volume 34, Number 2, (April 2004). [PDF]

Summary

Intrinsic characteristics of wireless links (e.g., variable bandwidth, bit corruption, channel allocation delays, and asymmetry) significantly affect performance of transport protocols. In addition, different types of wireless links show noticeable variance in … Continue Reading ››