Wireless Mesh Network Monitoring Management Platform Specification

This deliverable presents the two core elements of the monitoring framework investigated in the Airnet Project. The first part is dedicated to the monitoring and logging of topology for Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks. We investigate the use of a Distributed Hash Table based Peer-to-Peer service to maintain the distributed monitoring history of a hybrid ad-hoc/MESH network topology. Our approach supports merging and splitting of monitoring overlays over time and enables various management functions (e.g. fault, performance, configuration) to rebuild a model of the network topology at any time in the past of its history. The second part is dedicated to the organization of probes (mesh routers) such that accurate and low overhead monitoring of traffic flows passing through the mesh backbone is realized.