MeshNetworks - Technology

MeshNetworks' technology is the most widely deployed and powers the largest mobile mesh networks in the world.

MeshNetworks Enabled Architecture (MEA™) technology leverages patented and proven routing techniques originally developed for battlefield communications. By pushing intelligence and decision making to the edge of the network, high performance and scalable broadband networks can be built at very low cost.

Mesh Networking 101
Mesh networking is typically implemented in two basic modes: infrastructure and/or client meshing. To gain the maximum benefit that meshing can offer, both modes need to be supported simultaneously and seamlessly in a single network.

Infrastructure meshing creates wireless backhaul mesh among wired Access Points and Wireless Routers. This reduces system backhaul costs while increasing network coverage and reliability.

Client meshing enables wireless peer-to-peer networks to form between and among client devices (i.e., end users) and does not require any network infrastructure to be present. In this case, clients can hop through each other to reach other clients in the network.

MeshNetworks Offers a Complete Solution
MEA technology supports both infrastructure and client meshing. MEA’s infrastructure meshing creates a robust and scalable network, while client meshing enables end users to instantly form a broadband wireless network among themselves – with or without the inclusion of network infrastructure. In fact, MeshNetworks Multi-Hopping™ technology can turn every client device into a router/repeater. As users join the network they improve network coverage and increase network throughput. MEA networking is unique in that it supports Continuous Mesh™ routing. That is, it supports simultaneous operation of infrastructure and client meshing while it also allows clients to move seamlessly between infrastructure-based and client-based peer-to-peer networks.

Self-forming, self-healing routing intelligence distributes clients between Access Points, eliminating bottlenecks and improving overall network performance. MEA technology also improves network robustness, as clients can hop to alternate Access Points if their current Access Point is congested or fails. It also lets clients form large, ad hoc peer-to-peer networks anywhere, anytime. Peer-to-peer networking reduces the demand on network Access Points, freeing up capacity for other users. All these capabilities create low-cost, seamless and simple to deploy wireless PAN, LAN or WAN solutions.

MeshNetworks Scalable Routing (MSR™)
The first core technology powering MEA solutions is MeshNetworks Scalable Routing (MSR™) protocol. The MSR protocol is more than a routing algorithm, it is a complete mobile ad hoc networking solution that can mesh enable any 802.xx radio platform.

MSR technology utilizes an optimized and proven hybrid ad hoc routing algorithm that combines both proactive and reactive routing techniques. This enables support for high speed mobility, unmatched scalability and low messaging overhead. The result is a high performance solution that automatically adapts to varying network conditions, degree of client mobility and relevant RF environmental conditions on a packet by packet basis. Initially designed using high fidelity modeling, MSR has been optimized on large scale real world deployments.

Adaptive Transmission Protocol (ATP™) Service
The second core technology leveraged by all MEA products is Adaptive Transmission Protocol (ATP™) service. ATP services tightly bind the MSR protocol to the underlying radio platform. It interprets platform specific RF parameters and provides a radio agonistic, yet radio aware view of current RF conditions. It also works with the MSR protocol to adapt and optimize route selection, data rate modulation, and power output based on capabilities available on each specific radio platform MAC and Phy implementation. ATP also detects and deals with asymmetric RF links between nodes, a frequent occurrence in real world wireless networks.

In short, MSR and ATP technology work together to create a cross-layer optimized mesh solution for high performance and self-configuring wireless networks. The intellectual property and techniques employed in these core technologies are protected by an extensive portfolio of patents.

Quadrature Division Multiple Access (QDMA®) Radio Platform
As part of its exclusive license to the ITT/DARPA mobile ad hoc networking Intellectual Property and patent portfolio, MeshNetworks received the rights to the Quadrature Division Multiple Access (QDMA™) mobile radio platform. The QDMA radio is designed and optimized for mobile ad hoc broadband networking. Its multi-channel MAC and Phy are optimized to meet the scalability and reliability required in mission critical mesh networks. RF challenges encountered in wide area mobile networks such as Doppler shifting, rapid Raleigh fading and Multipath are handled efficiently by the QDMA radio. QDMA solutions have been successfully deployed in Public Safety, transportation and Homeland Security mobile data networks.

MeshNetworks Positioning System (MPS™)
Some of the world’s largest Public Safety agencies are trialing MeshNetworks Positioning System (MPS™) products as part of their MEA/QDMA mobile broadband network solutions. MPS technology provides high precision position location for outdoor and indoor applications – something GPS can’t match. And unlike GPS, MPS software can be configured to provide position information to the end user being located, as well as to neighboring users and/or central network monitoring points. MPS is ideal for Search & Rescue, Asset Management and Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) applications.

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