Multihop wireless mesh networks can provide Internet access over a wide area with minimal
infrastructure expenditure. In this work, we present a measurement driven deployment
strategy and a data-driven model to study the impact of design and topology decisions on
network-wide performance and cost. We perform extensive measurements in a two-tier
urban scenario to characterize the propagation environment and correlate received signal
strength with application layer throughput. We find that well-known estimates for pathloss …

Multihop wireless mesh networks can provide Internet access over a wide area with minimal
infrastructure expenditure. In this work, we investigate key issues involved in deploying such
networks including individual link characteristics, multihop application layer performance,
and network-wide reliability and throughput. We perform extensive measurements in a two-
tier urban scenario to characterize the propagation environment and correlate received
signal strength with application layer throughput. Further, we measure competing, multihop …