Experience from testbeds and management platforms towards mesh networking with heterogeneous wireless access

Abstract

The MESH-WISE project is aiming to address key fundamental issues in wireless mesh networking that span from fundamental performance characterization to prototyping heterogeneous-access mesh networking solutions for emergency response scenarios. In this paper we present the infrastructures that will be leveraged in this project and the latest results that have been acquired from the ones that are deployed. We further discuss the state of the art in academic and industrial resource and network management platforms and discuss how we will use existing know-how towards a centralized solution.