RT Conference Proceedings T1 Link group management for carrier-grade wireless mesh networks A1 Gloss, Bernd AB Their distributed nature makes mesh networks easy to deploy and robust against node and link failures. However, distributing functionality adds high signalling overhead and delays. Forming resource clusters in wireless mesh networks is a wellknown concept to alleviate these issues. This article describes a link group system for carrier-grade wireless mesh networks that provides absolute QoS guarantees. In order to support heterogeneous wireless mesh networks, the system interface of this link group system is implemented as a technology independent interface. Performance evaluations show a good fairness without requiring per-flow queuing, a good overall system performance, and small packet delays in multi-hop setups, which makes these link groups an important component of carrier-grade wireless mesh networks PB IEEE SN 978-1-905824-18-2 YR 2010 FD 2010 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/13969 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/13969 LA eng NO Proceedings of: 2010 Future Network & Mobile Summit, 16-18 June 2010, Florence, Italy NO European Community's Seventh Framework Program DS e-Archivo RD 18 jul. 2024