Wireless communication technologies continue to undergo rapid advancement. The
attractiveness of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN)s, in general, can be attributed
to their characteristics: the ability to dynamically self-organize and
self-configure, coupled with the ability to maintain mesh connectivity, leads in
effect to low set-up/installation costs, simpler maintenance tasks, and service
coverage with high reliability and fault-tolerance. As a result, WMNs have found
many useful applications in a broad range of domains. WMNs represent a key
technology for future generation wireless networks, and this broad-ranging and
comprehensive guidebook presents new ideas and results from research to address
the challenges ahead. This unique resource describes all the fundamental key
topics and