http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=City-Wide_Wireless_NetworksCity-Wide Wireless Networks - Revision history2026-04-12T12:09:00ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.15.1http://wiki.cas.mcmaster.ca/index.php?title=City-Wide_Wireless_Networks&diff=3132&oldid=prevGoesc: /* How it Works */2008-04-14T07:01:19Z<p><span class="autocomment">How it Works</span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Although new wireless technologies are being developed to facilitate better wireless connections, most current city-wide networks are implemented on the popular 802.11x technology. Just like any smaller wireless network, a city-wide network is implemented with an internet connection at an aggregation point, spanning out to one or more routers organized in a wireless mesh network. The wireless routers connect to multiple adjacent nodes forming a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bipartite </del>bipartite graph].<sup>[2]</sup> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> Although new wireless technologies are being developed to facilitate better wireless connections, most current city-wide networks are implemented on the popular 802.11x technology. Just like any smaller wireless network, a city-wide network is implemented with an internet connection at an aggregation point, spanning out to one or more routers organized in a wireless mesh network. The wireless routers connect to multiple adjacent nodes forming a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bipartite_graph </ins>bipartite graph].<sup>[2]</sup> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Image:Wireless_mesh.GIF|right|thumbnail|250px|A diagram of a very simple wireless mesh network. WiFi-Co represents the aggregation point. The wireless towers represent nodes or collections of nodes, and the houses represent neighborhoods.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Image:Wireless_mesh.GIF|right|thumbnail|250px|A diagram of a very simple wireless mesh network. WiFi-Co represents the aggregation point. The wireless towers represent nodes or collections of nodes, and the houses represent neighborhoods.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> The aggregation points are usually owned by large public/private WiFi organizations. Here, all the forwarded wireless signals are collected and routed through the internet via large internet pipes. For this reason, mesh networks are built flowering out from the aggregation points, getting farther away from the center. When a mesh grows large enough that routing to one aggregation point is inefficient, another aggregation point can be added to the network at a different place<sup>[4]</sup>, and the routing algorithms will adapt the network accordingly.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> The aggregation points are usually owned by large public/private WiFi organizations. Here, all the forwarded wireless signals are collected and routed through the internet via large internet pipes. For this reason, mesh networks are built flowering out from the aggregation points, getting farther away from the center. When a mesh grows large enough that routing to one aggregation point is inefficient, another aggregation point can be added to the network at a different place<sup>[4]</sup>, and the routing algorithms will adapt the network accordingly.</div></td></tr>
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