Performance Evaluation of WMN-GA for Wireless Mesh Networks Considering Mobile Mesh Clients

Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are important networking infrastructure for providing cost-efficient broadband wireless connectivity. Mesh router node placement is important to achieve network connectivity and coverage in such networks. In this paper, we implement and evaluate the performance of Genetic Algorithm (GA) for mesh router node placement in WMNs. We consider Exponential and Weibull distributions of mobile mesh clients. As evaluation metrics we used size of giant component and number of covered mesh clients. Simulation results show that WMN-GA have a good performance when mesh clients are mobile.