**Meet the editor**

Dr Andrey V. Krendzel has been a Research Associate in the IP Technologies area of the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona since June 2006. He received his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications in 2005 from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. In 2001, he obtained the licentiate (Cand.Sc.) degree from St.-Petersburg Univer-

sity of Telecommunications (SUT), Russia. He is a grantholder of NOKIA, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Tampere Graduate School in Information Science and Engineering (TISE), Centre for International Mobility (CIMO). His current research interests are focused on mobile traffic offloading (modeling), LISP-based mobility management in heterogeneous networks, algorithms for smart IP flow mobility, distributed location management in wireless mesh networks, LTE/EPC node dimensioning, network topological optimization.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Application of Genetic** 

**Section 1 Efficent Link Scheduling and** 

Chapter 2 **Stability-Based Topology Control** 

Gustavo Vejarano

Chapter 4 **Channel Assignment Schemes** 

Chapter 5 **Partially Overlapping Channel** 

Chapter 6 **Autonomous Traffic Balancing** 

Chapter 7 **Achievable Capacity Limit of** 

Sangsu Jung

**in Wireless Mesh Networks 21** 

Chapter 3 **Channel Assignment Using Topology Control** 

**Optimization for Multi-Interface** 

Stefan Pollak and Vladimir Wieser

Fawaz Bokhari and Gergely Záruba

**Section 2 Network Planning Aspects in WMNs 131** 

Thomas Olwal, Moshe Masonta, Fisseha Mekuria and Kobus Roux

Aizaz U. Chaudhry and Roshdy H.M. Hafez

**Channel Assignment Strategies in WMNs 1** 

**Algorithms in Scheduling of TDMA-WMNs 3**  Vahid Sattari Naeini and Naser Movahhedinia

**Based on Power Control in Wireless Mesh Networks 47** 

**Wireless Mesh Networks Based on Link Load 79** 

**Assignments in Wireless Mesh Networks 103** 

**Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks 133** 

**High Performance Nodes for Wireless Mesh Networks 149** 
