Wireless mesh networking

This example was drawn on the base of wireless mesh network (WMN) diagram in the Ho Ting Cheng's blog from the website of the Broadband Communications Research Group, the University of Waterloo, Canada.
"Wireless mesh/ ad hoc networking is a promising technology for future broadband wireless access, supporting ubiquitous communications and mobile computing. Wireless mesh/ ad hoc networking provides not only a viable, but also economical solution for both peer-to-peer applications and Internet access. Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) and wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) can be established via LTE/ LTE-A, IEEE 802.16, or IEEE 802.11 technologies. Nonetheless, the success of WMNs/ MANETs is highly contingent on effective radio resource management and robust protocol design. Recently, wireless mesh/ ad hoc networking for suburban/ rural residential areas has been attracting a plethora of attention from industry and academia. With austere suburban/ rural networking environments, multi-hop communications with decentralized resource allocation are desired. Specific contributions of this ongoing research include: Distributed Call Admission Control (CAC) and End-to-End Resource Allocation." [bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/ ~htcheng/ Current_ Projects.html]
The network diagram example "Wireless mesh networking" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Vehicular Networking solution from the Computer and Networks area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

This diagram sample shows the different situations that cooperative positioning may be helpful for vehicular networks. It was designed on the base of Wikimedia Commons file: CPsituations.jpg.
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"Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are created by applying the principles of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) - the spontaneous creation of a wireless network for data exchange - to the domain of vehicles. They are a key component of intelligent transportation systems (ITS).
While, in the early 2000s, VANETs were seen as a mere one-to-one application of MANET principles, they have since then developed into a field of research in their own right. By 2015, the term VANET became mostly synonymous with the more generic term inter-vehicle communication (IVC), although the focus remains on the aspect of spontaneous networking, much less on the use of infrastructure like Road Side Units (RSUs) or cellular networks." [Vehicular ad hoc network. Wikipedia]
The vehicular network diagram example "CP situations" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Computers and Communications solution from the Illustration area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.