Mesh Router Node Placement in Wireless Mesh Networks Considering Different Initial Router Placement Methods

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with connectivity and coverage problems of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). Because these problems are known to be NP-Hard, we propose and implement a system based on GA. We call the proposed system: WMN-GA. We evaluate the performance of WMN-GA considering Giant Component and Covered Mesh Clients metrics. We evaluate and compare the performance of different initial router node placement methods in a wireless mesh network considering different distributions of mesh clients. Our WMN-GA System have a good behavior and can find the best initial router node placement methods for every distribution of mesh clients.