Design of a self-forming, self-healing small-medium infrastructure wireless mesh network

The Internet access may not be a reality in many scenarios such as poor communities and disaster-hit areas. A mesh network is a solution for such scenarios, where a wireless backbone will enable communication and needed services. In this paper we propose the design of a self-forming, self-healing infrastructure wireless mesh network architecture, composed using 802.11 based multi-radio network nodes. The design incorporates the peculiarities of these scenarios in a lean scheme based on well-established DHCP protocol and reduces auto-configuration as well as routing overhead.