A distributed broker system enabling coordinated access schemes in autonomous wireless networks

Autonomous wireless networks play an increasingly crucial role in today's society. Harsh environmental conditions, challenging deployment topologies, unreliable (or non-existing) power grids, as well as misguided control procedures of communications infrastructures by governmental authorities have made autonomous communication infrastructures a valuable asset for long-term development and wealth of societies. However, such wireless networks are in an early phase of their development and need to incorporate necessary equipment and algorithms for autonomous operation. This paper presents a concept and a concrete simulation scenario showing how a distributed context management system and the data collected and distributed by such a system can improve the performance of an autonomous, coordinated wireless mesh network (ACWMN). Research agrees that it is context awareness that will transform today's networks to incorporate autonomous, coordinated behavior. We further depict a concrete example simulation scenario where the access capacity of an ACWMN with WLAN radio access technology is significantly increased by coordinating user access with upper limits on the number of users that can concurrently request data services.