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Managing Wireless Mesh Networks – A Survey of Recent Fault Recovery Approaches

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Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2015)

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Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a technology which has evolved in recent years and fits well in today’s technological needs. However, due to the wireless nature of WMNs and their deployment in heterogeneous and large scale areas, wireless links often face significant quality fluctuations and performance degradation or weak connectivity. Therefore, failure detection and recovery plays crucial role in performance of WMN. This paper presents a study report on comparison of recent research and techniques developed for the issue of fault tolerance in WMNs. In this survey we present the existing techniques for fault tolerance in WMNs in categories; node failure approach, communication failure approach, routing schemes, fault tolerance techniques, and autonomous reconfiguration systems. The paper also provides an outline of areas which need further research and studies.

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  1. Department of Telecommunication Systems, Communication and Operating Systems, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Akmal Yaqini

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  2. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Petteri Nurmi

  3. RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Flora Salim

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Yaqini, A. (2015). Managing Wireless Mesh Networks – A Survey of Recent Fault Recovery Approaches. In: Sigg, S., Nurmi, P., Salim, F. (eds) Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. MobiCASE 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29003-4_19

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