Qadir, J: Efficient broadcasting for multi-radio mesh networ

This book addresses the problem of efficient broadcast in a multi-radio multi-channel multi-rate wireless mesh network (MR2-MC WMN). In such networks, nodes are equipped with multiple radio network interface cards, each tuned to an orthogonal channel, that can dynamically adjust transmission rate by choosing a modulation scheme appropriate for the channel conditions. The specific problem this book addresses is called the `minimum-latency-broadcasting‘‘ (MLB) problem in which the goal is to minimize broadcast latency , defined as the maximum delay between a packet s network-wide broadcast at the source and its eventual reception at all network nodes. Many broadcast-based applications of WMNs have strict latency requirements: e.g., IPTV, audio conferencing, video-feeds, multi-player games; these and other latency-sensitive WMN applications can benefit from the algorithms proposed in this book. Important insights are also presented for ers of routing protocols for multi-radio multi-rate wireless networks.