Performance Evaluation of Mesh Router Node Placement Using Simulated Annealing Considering Exponential and Weibull Distributions

One of the key advantages of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is their importance for providing cost-efficient broadband connectivity. There are issues for achieving the network connectivity and user coverage, which are related with the node placement problem. In this paper, we use a Simulated Annealing (SA) system for mesh router node placement in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). We compare the system performance for Exponential and Weibull distributions of mesh clients. Simulation results show that best results are obtained where the value of temperature is 1 and for Weibull distribution of mesh clients. While, when we increase temperature value there are oscillations and the optimal solution is not reached.