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Difficulties of Wireless Mesh

Difficulties of Wireless Mesh

ACM News Service: The Realities of Dealing with Wireless Mesh Networks..  The idea of wireless mesh networks appeals to me because of the possible utility for peer-to-peer bootstrapping and discovery.  I am not so interested in the problems of wireless access that the techniques are designed to overcome, since I am happy to apply the same ideas to wired edge nodes, even wireless access points, that can form a mesh without heavy centralized support.

This is a 3-by-5 card placeholder for me to return and dig deeper, supplementing what I discovered earlier about this case.

The concern that this blurb raises for me is the item on the end that says coming out of sleep mode (that is, being detached or shut down for some period) "in a mesh network requires nodes to resynchronize with the network upon reactivation, a power- and time-consumptive process that involves considerable over-the-air network traffic."

I don't like the sound of that and I need to check out the full article, in the June 2004 issue of Sensor online.

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posted by orcmid at 6/27/2004 06:33:14 PM