Performance Evaluation of WMN-GA System for Node Placement in WMNs Considering Normal Distribution of Mesh Clients and Different Selection and Mutation Operators

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are currently attracting a lot of attention from wireless research and technology community due to their importance for providing cost-efficient broadband wireless connectivity. Issues for achieving the network connectivity and user coverage are related with the node placement problem. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of WMN-GA system for node placement problem in WMNs. For evaluation, we consider Normal Distribution of mesh clients and different selection and mutation operators. The population size is considered 64 and the number of generation 200. For evaluation, we consider the giant component and the number of covered users metrics. The simulation results shows that the WMN-GA system performs better for Single Mutation and Linear Ranking.