Performance Comparison for Different Communication Distances of Mesh Routers in WMN-SA Simulation System

Abstract

One of the key advantages of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is their importance for providing cost efficient broadband connectivity. There are issues for achieving the network connectivity and user coverage, which are related with the node placement problem. In this work, we consider the router node placement problem in WMNs. We want to find the optimal distribution of router nodes in order to provide the best network connectivity and provide the best coverage in a set of uniformly distributed clients. From simulation results, we found that, for optimizing the size of Giant Component, the communication distance should be 70m or more. While, for optimizing the number of covered mesh clients, the communication distance should be 90m.