Self-configuration of wireless multi-hop networks

The extreme dynamics of wireless multi-hop networks (WMN) - those that use multiple wireless links to forward data - require self-configuration solutions in every communication layer. Self-configuration demands mechanisms for information sharing, as well as specific decision-making algorithms for each service or application. Self-configuration must also be embedded in the communication layers in order to cope with changes in the wireless environment. This article is a digest of the three contributions of, which investigated the self-configuration tasks of programmability, sharing of information and specialized control loops for WMN. First, we designed a middleware, based on the Information Plane (InP) concept, to ease the programmability and sharing of information among nodes. Next, we proposed two InP-based control loops for WMN: one for data rate and transmission power aware routing, and another for mobile context-aware peer-to-peer services.