Implementation and Experimental Results of a WMN Testbed in Indoor Environment Considering LoS Scenario

Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are attracting a lot of attention from wireless network researchers, because of their potential use in several fields such as collaborative computing and communications. Considering mobility of the terminals, routing is a key process for operation of WMNs. In this paper, we present the implementation of a test bed for WMNs. We analyze the performance of Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol in an indoor scenario. For evaluation we considered throughput, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), hop count, delay and jitter metrics. The experimental results show that the nodes in the test bed were communicating smoothly and we got height values of throughput and PDR and low values of delay and jitter.