Architecture and Evaluation of an

This text tries to clarify what a mesh network is and which differences and advantages it introduces compared to other kinds of wireless community networks. It is a summary of the publication “Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network”, written by John Bicket, Daniel Aguayo, Sanjit Biswas and Robert Morris, from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of M.I.T.. The text is one of the activities in the seminar “Internet Measurement” of the department Intelligent Networks and Management of Distributed Systems, Research Group Prof. Anja Feldmann in “Technische Universität Berlin”.