IEEE 802.11s

IEEE 802.11s is a not yet accepted standard for wireless mesh networking. The routing function is implemented in the Data Link Layer and thus the network is fully transparent for the network layer protocol. The Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP) based on AODV has been proposed as the default routing protocol.

Prototype IEEE 802.11s support is already available in the Linux kernel in mac80211. Due to its similarity to our DES-SERT routing framework, we would like to have a benchmarking and evaluation of both. Additionally, we are interested if DES-SERT resp. DES-SERT-based routing daemons can be incorporated in IEEE 802.11s.

Objectives

• Read documentation of IEEE 802.11s
• Tryout Linux prototype implementation in our testbed
• Get familiar with DES-SERT
• Specify and run benchmarks of DES-SERT and IEEE 802.11s
• Evaluate if DES-SERT can be incorporated in IEEE 802.11s