Wireless Mesh Network OAM architecture

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have been expected to be future commercial service-grade networks. OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance) in wired networks is an important tool to guarantee a reliable network performance, WMNs needs such a tool to meet the service providers requirements, and to handle mobility problem. We propose a fundamental architecture of wireless mesh network OAM to maintain a certain level of service by handling mobility, in addition to fault management and performance management.