Authors:
João Paulo Barraca
1
;
Susana Sargento
2
and
Rui Aguiar
2
Affiliations:
1
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
;
2
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Communities, cross-layer, cooperation, access control, mesh networks.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data Communication Networking
;
Home Area Networks
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Mobile Software and Services
;
Network Management
;
Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
;
Telecommunications
;
Ubiquitous Wireless Services and Protocols
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
The community notion can be exploited as a rational concept leading users to cooperate in sharing resources on Wireless Mesh Networks. We propose a novel concept for self-organizing networks, where multiple entities (network elements or users) collaborate to achieve common goals, and in particular, to establish the basic connectivity and service delivery infrastructures. The resulting architecture is based on wireless mesh communications, with different entities taking different roles in the communities in a cross-layer approach. These communities can collaborate, leading to increasingly complex and geographically extended scenarios.