Self-Organization in Community Mesh Networks The Berlin RoofNet Export

@proceedings{citeulike:1378877, abstract = {A community network must be usable for inexperienced end users; thus self-organization is essential. On the one hand, we propose an approach for self-organization in ad-hoc wireless multi-hop mesh networks, where the client is fully freed from such mundane tasks as IP configuration, etc. On the other hand, the community mesh network itself is fully self-organized thus no operator or provider is required. We present the architecture of the Berlin RoofNet (BRN) and a distributed realization of services like DHCP, ARP and Internet gateway discovery and selection. In addition, results of a detailed simulation and experimental evaluation comparing our distributed hash table based approach to traditional methods are presented. We show that our approach is more reliable, efficient and responsive}, author = {Sombrutzki, R. and Zubow, A. and Kurth, M. and Redlich, J. P.}, citeulike-article-id = {1378877}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4138229}, journal = {Operator-Assisted (Wireless Mesh) Community Networks, 2006 1st Workshop on}, keywords = {selfo}, pages = {1--11}, posted-at = {2007-06-11 16:32:43}, priority = {2}, title = {Self-Organization in Community Mesh Networks The Berlin RoofNet}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4138229}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1378877 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1378877 N2 - A community network must be usable for inexperienced end users; thus self-organization is essential. On the one hand, we propose an approach for self-organization in ad-hoc wireless multi-hop mesh networks, where the client is fully freed from such mundane tasks as IP configuration, etc. On the other hand, the community mesh network itself is fully self-organized thus no operator or provider is required. We present the architecture of the Berlin RoofNet (BRN) and a distributed realization of services like DHCP, ARP and Internet gateway discovery and selection. In addition, results of a detailed simulation and experimental evaluation comparing our distributed hash table based approach to traditional methods are presented. We show that our approach is more reliable, efficient and responsive JF - Operator-Assisted (Wireless Mesh) Community Networks, 2006 1st Workshop on EP - 11 TI - Self-Organization in Community Mesh Networks The Berlin RoofNet SP - 1 KW - selfo AU - Sombrutzki, R AU - Zubow, A AU - Kurth, M AU - Redlich, JP PY - 2006/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4138229 ER -