IEEE 802.11-based Wireless Mesh Network Testbed

In this paper, an IEEE 802.11-based wireless mesh network testbed is developed to evaluate the performance of wireless mesh networks in real environment. The proposed testbed consists of mesh routers and mesh clients, where the mesh routers have minimal mobility and form the backbone of the wireless mesh network. In order to build the proposed 802.11-based wireless mesh network testbed, both an ARM-based embedded Linux development board and an Intel x86-based laptop PC were used to implement the mesh routers and mesh clients. Multimedia services such as voice, video and text were also used in order to confirm the functions of the testbed components, the mesh routers and mesh clients.