NEST - Network Security and Trust Group at the University of Rhode Island

Wireless Mesh Network

J. Bicket, D. Aguayo, s. Biswas, and R. Morris, "Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network", ACM Mobicom 2005
Introduction: This paper evaluates the ability of a wireless mesh architecture to provide high performance Internet access while demanding little deployment planning or operational management. The architecture considered in this paper has unplanned node placement, omni-directional antennas, and multi-hop routing. These design decisions contribute to ease of deployment, an important requirement for community wireless networks. However, this architecture carries the risk that lack of planning might render the network's performance unusably low. The paper evaluates this unplanned mesh architecture with a case study of the Roofnet 802.11b mesh network.

Ian F. Akyildiz , Xudong Wang , Weilin Wang, "Wireless mesh networks: a survey", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, v.47 n.4,p.445-487, 15 March 2005
Introduction: Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) consist of mesh routers and mesh clients, where mesh routers have minimal mobility and form the backbone of WMNs. They provide network access for both mesh and conventional clients. The integration of WMNs with other networks such as the Internet, cellular, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16, sensor networks, etc., can be accomplished through the gateway and bridging functions in the mesh routers. Mesh clients can be either stationary or mobile, and can form a client mesh network among themselves and with mesh routers. WMNs are anticipated to resolve the limitations and to significantly improve the performance of ad hoc networks, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), and Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs).

N. B. Salem and J-P Hubaux, "Securing Wireless Mesh Networks", IWireless mesh networks: a surveyEEE Wireless Communication, Volume 13, Issue 2, p.50-55, April 2006
Introduction: This paper discusses security issues in Wireless Mesh Networks, it identifies three fundamental network operations that need to be secured in current WMN. Also two future WMNs(vehicular networks and multi-operator WMNs) and their new security challenges are described.