Testbed for wireless Mesh Backhaul Networks MEMBRANE demonstrator

Wireless Backhaul mesh networks have attracted attention during the past few years due to their ease of deployment, flexibility and adaptiveness, compared to non-mesh networks. Besides studying and evaluating novel techniques and algorithms for such systems, IST project MEMBRANE aims to develop demonstrators to act as proof of concept and provide an implementation oriented perspective. Two demonstrators are being implemented within the project, addressing different aspects of the proposed system. The first demonstrator focuses on link level cooperative communication for wireless mesh networks and the second focuses on optimized distributed scheduling and routing. This paper briefly describes the techniques and algorithms used in each case and provides the basic design principles of each of the demonstrators.