Experimental Evaluation of Wireless Mesh Networks: A Case Study and Comparison

Price of WiFi devices has decreased dramatically in recent years, while new standards, as 802.11n, have multiplied its performance. This has fostered the deployment of Wireless Mesh networks (WMN), putting into practice concepts evolved from more than a decade of research in Ad Hoc networks. Nevertheless, evolution of WMN it is in its infancy, as shows the growing and diverse number of scenarios where WMN are being deployed. In these paper we analyze a particular case study of a Wireless Community Mesh Network, and we compare it with a selected experimental WMN studies found in the literature.