MeshAdmin: An integrated platform for wireless mesh network management

Wireless mesh network management is more complex than wired network management mainly because of network resource constraints and link quality variability. Therefore, monitoring solutions for wired networks do not achieve satisfactory performance in mesh networks. There are several techniques and tools proposed in the literature for wireless mesh network management. Each of those techniques and tools usually includes a set of specific functionalities leading to the use of more than one together in order to manage a real mesh network. This article discusses a set of requirements of an integrated platform for wireless mesh network management. This work also presents MeshAdmin, a management platform that fulfills a subset of the presented requirements. In order to evaluate MeshAdmin monitoring traffic overhead, this work presents performance tests done in a real mesh testbed.