一种无线网状网安全接入方案

安全接入是无线网状网（WMN）的关键技术之一,也是限制其进一步推广的主要原因之一。文章将WAPI机制引入无线网状网系统,根据无线网络的特性,以及各个节点在WMN中的不同作用。简化了WMN中各节点的关系,并对WAPI协议进行适当改进,实现了无线网状网系统中各节点的安全接入。理论分析表明,该方案不仅简化了WMN中各网元节点的安全接入,而且降低了网络传输延时,提升了WMN的通信效率和可管理性。     

无线网状网组网技术及实验研究

面对日益增长的高速无线因特网接入需求,传统的无线接入方式,如蜂窝网、无线局域网（WLAN）面临许多挑战,而无线网状网（WMN）作为因特网“最后一公里”接入方案,提供一种灵活而低成本的多跳通信,也将成为各种无线网络融合的主要技术。针对这一极具发展前途的网络结构,从WMN的两种典型应用出发,文章从网络配置、功率控制、移动性管理和接入控制以及路由协议设计等方面说明了WMN组网中的相关问题和技术,对WMN与移动自组织（Ad hoc）网路由协议的设计进行了对比,并给出了一种基于WLAN和第二层交换技术的WMN试验床实现方案。     

基于HWMP的先应树状路由算法研究

无线网状网是一种新兴的宽带无线网络接入技术,支持不同应用场景的无线接入。IEEE802.11s标准定义了一种默认的路由选择算法,称为混合无线网状网协议(HWMP)。HWMP将把树状路由为基础的先应路由模式和按需路由模式相结合。对先应路由模式进行改进,以减小网络开销,增强网络性能。从仿真结果可以看出,改进后的算法在数据包到达率、平均端到端时延和吞吐量指标上达到了更佳的性能。     

异构云无线接入网络:原理、架构、技术和挑战

为了缓解密集异构无线网络节点间严重的干扰,提高节点间分布式协作处理增益,同时解决云无线接入网络控制信息传输复杂、无法和已有移动通信网络融合等问题,提出了异构云无线接入网络(H-CRAN)作为5G移动通信系统的接入网解决方案.所提H-CRAN的核心是将云无线接入网络与密集异构无线网络融合,将控制平面功能从云无线接入网络中抽离,通过已存的异构大功率节点实现控制平面功能和全网的无线覆盖,利用无线射频单元实现热点区域海量业务的大容量传输.介绍了H-CRAN的系统架构、关键技术组织和研究技术挑战等.     

GPRS在无线传感器网络远程通信中的应用

无线传感器网络是由多种类型节点组成的分布式网络.通用节点采用短距离的射频通信和中继完成更远距离的传输.为实现无线远程通信,采用通用分组无线业务(GPRS)公共无线网络.汇聚节点收集无线传感器网络采集的数据,通过网关节点接入GPRS公用无线移动网络.监控中心通过Internet和GPRS网络获取无线传感器网络的远程数据.介绍了无线传感器网络测量系统的组成,在嵌入式系统中接入GPRS的网络接入方法,给出了实验结果.     

无线宽带的未来——无线网状网

无线网状网(Witless Mesh Network,WMN)是新型的无线宽带网络。本文从网状网络与无线网络两方面入手,对WMN进行介绍,阐述其组成节点与网络结构,重点对WMN与其它网络进行比较,由此总结出WMN的优势与不足,并提出WMN的研究热点。     

基于EPON MAC层协议的无线接入研究

光通信与无线通信的融合实现宽带无线接入是将来网络接入最具竞争优势的解决方案之一。为了能应用PON结构的技术优势和实现基于PON的无线接入,提出在EPON MAC层中适当增加WiFi无线接入控制有关的协议帧的技术方案,实现了EPON的宽带无线接入。建立基于该方案的网络模型。通过仿真实验,表明适当修改EPON MAC层协议,可实现EPON与WiFi的无线接入。     

无线网状网技术分析

无线网状网是一种全新的无线接入技术。也是一种全新的增强型体系结构。它结合了无线和有线解决方案的最佳性能特点，可以为企业和公众终端用户提供可靠的无线接入。解决方案引入了对等网状拓扑的概念。可实现接入点之间的无线通信。这个概念解决了当今面临的许多部署问题。比如进行广泛的以太网布线。支持新的部署模式等。本文介绍了无线网状网的核心技术、安全性能、网络性能等及其与无线接入同类技术的比较。     

无线自组(Ad-Hoc)网及其路由算法

无弛自组(Ad-Hoc)网是一种不需固定路由器能够实现自治运行的无线多跳网络.在无线Ad-Hoc网中,每个节点既可以是主机又可以是路由器.本文介绍了无线Ad-Hoc网的特点、挑战,并介绍了路由技术实现协议.最后对无线Ad-Hoc网前景进行了展望.     

无线数据通信网中的信道接入协议研究

信道接入协议（MAC）是无线数据通信协议的重要组成部分。由于无线信道是一个开放、共享的信道，网络节点在通信过程中存在隐终端和暴露终端问题。基于目前无线通信常用的MAC协议存在的问题，着重分析了基于扩频码的信道接入协议，该协议利用扩频码的正变特性，使得网络中各节点可以同时占用信道而互不干扰，较好地解决了信道争用问题，提高了系统效率。同时指出，在选择MAC协议时，应根据无线网络的拓扑结构及特点灵活选择，以提高网络性能。     

Mitigating the gateway bottleneck via transparent cooperative caching in wireless mesh networks

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have been proposed to provide cheap, easily deployable and robust Internet access. The dominant Internet-access traffic from clients causes a congestion bottleneck around the gateway, which can significantly limit the throughput of the WMN clients in accessing the Internet. In this paper, we present MeshCache, a transparent caching system for WMNs that exploits the locality in client Internet-access traffic to mitigate the bottleneck effect at the gateway, thereby improving client-perceived performance. MeshCache leverages the fact that a WMN typically spans a small geographic area and hence mesh routers are easily over-provisioned with CPU, memory, and disk storage, and extends the individual wireless mesh routers in a WMN with built-in content caching functionality. It then performs cooperative caching among the wireless mesh routers.We explore two architecture designs for MeshCache: (1) caching at every client access mesh router upon file download, and (2) caching at each mesh router along the route the Internet-access traffic travels, which requires breaking a single end-to-end transport connection into multiple single-hop transport connections along the route. We also leverage the abundant research results from cooperative web caching in the Internet in designing cache selection protocols for efficiently locating caches containing data objects for these two architectures. We further compare these two MeshCache designs with caching at the gateway router only.Through extensive simulations and evaluations using a prototype implementation on a testbed, we find that MeshCache can significantly improve the performance of client nodes in WMNs. In particular, our experiments with a Squid-based MeshCache implementation deployed on the MAP mesh network testbed with 15 routers show that compared to caching at the gateway only, the MeshCache architecture with hop-by-hop caching reduces the load at the gateway by 38%, improves the average client throughput by 170%, and increases the number of transfers that achieve a throughput greater than 1 Mbps by a factor of 3.     

Asymptotic Capacity of Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks

An infrastructure wireless mesh network (WMN) is a hierarchical network consisting of mesh clients, mesh routers and gateways. Mesh routers constitute a wireless mesh backbone, to which mesh clients are connected as a star topology, and gateways are chosen among mesh routers providing Internet access. In this paper, the throughput capacity of infrastructure WMNs is studied. For such a network with Nc randomly distributed mesh clients, Nr regularly placed mesh routers and Ng gateways, assuming that each mesh router can transmit at W bits/s, the per-client throughput capacity has been derived as a function of Nc , Nr , Ng and W . The result illustrates that, in order to achieve high capacity performance, the number of mesh routers and the number of gateways must be properly chosen. It also reveals that an infrastructure WMN can achieve the same asymptotic throughput capacity as that of a hybrid ad hoc network by choosing only a small number of mesh routers as gateways. This property makes WMNs a very promising solution for future wireless networking.     

The Optimization of Combination Scheme in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Based on the Practical Reporting Frame Format

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are emerged as prominent solution to provide seamless connection to the internet. WMNs are typically used for providing broadband wireless internet access to a large number of users and networks. Guaranteeing the quality of service to end users with efficient resource utilization is a challenging issue in WMNs. To accomplish this, we propose a hybrid routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. It is a combination of intra cluster routing protocol (ICR) and inter cluster routing protocol for mesh networks (ICMR). Intra cluster routing protocol is intended to facilitate the communication between mesh clients within a same cluster and inter cluster routing protocol (ICMR) intended to facilitate the communication for mesh clients from different clusters. Intra cluster routing protocol is a proactive type of routing protocol and inter cluster routing protocol is a reactive type of routing protocol. The performance of the proposed protocol is analyzed and the results shown superior performance compared to baseline routing protocols in terms of throughput, end to end delay, packet delivery ratio and jitter.     

Extending P2PMesh: topology‐aware schemes for efficient peer‐to‐peer data sharing in wireless mesh networks

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged as a promising technology that provides low‐cost broadband access to the Internet for fixed and mobile wireless end users. An orthogonal evolution in computer networking has been the rise of peer‐to‐peer (P2P) applications such as P2P data sharing. It is of interest to enable effective P2P data sharing in this type of networks. Conventional P2P data sharing systems are not cognizant of the underlying network topology and therefore suffer from inefficiency. We argue for dual‐layer mesh network architecture with support from wireless mesh routers for P2P applications. The main contribution of this paper is P2PMesh: a topology‐aware system that provides combined architecture and efficient schemes for enabling efficient P2P data sharing in WMNs. The P2PMesh architecture utilizes three schemes: (i) an efficient content lookup that mitigates traffic load imbalance at mesh routers; (ii) an efficient establishment of download paths; and (iii) a data transfer protocol for multi‐hop wireless networks with limited capacity. We note here that the path establishment and data transfer schemes are specific to P2P traffic and that other traffic would use routes determined by the default routing protocol in the WMN. Simulation results suggest that P2PMesh has the potential to improve the performance of P2P applications in a wireless multi‐hop setting; specifically, we focused on data sharing, but other P2P applications can also be supported by this approach. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

无线Mesh网中基于信道感知的多径路由判据

无线Mesh网是一种新型的宽带无线接入网络,其中路由算法的设计是一个非常活跃的研究领域。WCETT路由判据仅适于单径路由协议,但是多路径路由能够提供负载平衡和较高的总带宽。为了提高网络性能,在综合考虑无线链路质量和信道间干扰的基础上,提出了一种新的多径路由判据CAM-WCETT。仿真结果表明,该方案能显著提高网络的吞吐量。     

Cross‐layer optimization for CDMA/TDD wireless mesh networks

This paper proposes a new cross‐layer optimization algorithm for wireless mesh networks (WMNs). CDMA/TDD (code division multiple access/time division duplex) is utilized and a couple of TDD timeslot scheduling schemes are proposed for the mesh network backbone. Cross‐layer optimization involves simultaneous consideration of the signal to interference‐plus‐noise ratio (SINR) at the physical layer, traffic load estimation and allocation at medium access control (MAC) layer, and routing decision at the network layer. Adaptive antennas are utilized by the wireless mesh routers to take advantage of directional beamforming. The optimization formulation is subject to routing constraints and can be solved by general nonlinear optimization techniques. Comparisons are made with respect to the classic shortest‐path routing algorithm in the network layer. The results reveal that the average end‐to‐end successful packet rate (SPR) can be significantly improved by the cross‐layer approach. The corresponding optimized routing decisions are able to reduce the traffic congestion. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Applications of network coding to improve TCP performance over wireless mesh networks: a survey

There is growing interest in the use of wireless mesh network (WMN) as a last‐mile option for Internet access. Despite the many benefits of WMNs, the performance of Internet access may not be ideal. One of the main issues is the interaction of transmission control protocol (TCP) with the underlying network. The poor performance of TCP over multi‐hop networks is well‐documented, and extensive research exists, which addresses TCPs foible and enhance TCP performance for multi‐hop environments. This paper provides a thorough survey of TCP performance issues over WMNs and the available solutions to address these issues. Among the existing methods, we focused on network coding (NC) and the ways that TCP interacts with network coded systems. NC is a technique that encodes the received packets in each node before forwarding them towards the destination. The use of NC in the transport layer to address performance issues raised by wireless access is a recent research topic. This paper presents a detailed study of TCP interaction with NC. Some open research areas in this field are suggested. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Social-aware dynamic router node placement in wireless mesh networks

The problem of dynamic router node placement (dynRNP) in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) is concerned with determining a dynamic geographical placement of mesh routers to serve mobile mesh clients at different times, so that both network connectivity (i.e., the greatest topology subgraph component size) and client coverage (i.e., the number of the served mesh clients) are maximized. Mesh clients are wireless devises associated with users, and in real world, the users with same interests or some social relationship have higher chance to gather and move together geographically, i.e., they form a community, and the WMN with multiple communities can be regarded as a social network. Therefore, this paper investigates the so-called social-aware WMN-dynRNP problem assuming that mesh routers should be aware of the social community structure of mesh clients to dynamically adjust their placement to improve network performance. To cope with this problem, this paper proposes a social-based particle swarm optimization approach, which additionally includes a social-supporting vector to direct low-loading mesh routers to support the heavy-loading mesh routers in the same topology subgraph component (community), so as to dynamically adopt to the social community behavior of mesh clients. As compared with the previous approach, our experimental results show that the proposed approach is capable of effectively reducing number of the unserved mesh clients and increasing network connectivity in dynamic social scenarios.     

基于网络利用率最大化来提高无线Mesh网络中TCP协议的传输性能

In Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), the performance of conventional TCP significantly deteriorates due to the unreliable wireless channel. To enhance TCP performance in WMNs, TCP/LT is proposed in this paper. It introduces fountain codes into packet reorganization in the protocol stack of mesh gateways and mesh clients. Furthermore, it is compatible with conventional TCP. Regarded as a Performance Enhancement Proxies (PEP), a mesh gateway buffers TCP packets into several blocks. It simultaneously processes them by using fountain encoders and then sends them to mesh clients. Apart from the improvement of the throughput of a unitary TCP flow, the entire network utility maximization can also be ensured by adjusting the scale of coding blocks for each TCP flow adaptively. Simulations show that TCP/LT presents high throughput gains over single TCP in lossy links of WMNs while preserving the fairness for multiple TCPs. As losses increase, the transmission delay of TCP/LT experiences a slow linear growth in contrast to the exponential growth of TCP.     

无线Mesh网网络层和MAC层相关研究

随着无线网络技术的发展,无线mesh网凭借其多跳通信能力为拓宽WiFi网络的覆盖率提供了有效的途径。利用低发射功率来提高覆盖率和容量的能力,使其在普遍存在的宽带接入中扮演重要角色。凭借其独特的优势,WMN发展非常迅速,并广泛应用于众多领域。为了更好的说明WMN领域存在的挑战,详细描述了无线mesh网的MAC层和网络层研究状况,并且提出了可能提高多跳网络吞吐量的新协议。