CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
This chapter shows the introduction of Wireless Mesh Network and Ray- Tracing Technique, background of problem, objectives and scope of the study.
1.1 Introduction
Wireless Mesh Network WMN is an advance networking technology in this coming future or perhaps, now. WMNs differ from conventional networking pattern
in terms of front-end facilities, width of coverage, transmission power, routing capability, network maintenance etc. Regarding to all the existing advantages on
WMN, it is recently undergoing a rapid development and inspiring numerous applications in potential fieldsindustries. Nevertheless, for a WMN to be all it can be,
considerable research efforts are still required. The WMN technology still possesses several of setbacks that likely manipulate the performance and coverage of the
network. For example, the distances and obstacles that regularly led to signal power reduction; the available MAC and routing protocols are not scalable; throughput
drops significantly as the number of nodes or hops in WMN raised etc. If the majority of the mentioned hitches are solved or improved, WMN will be the next
generation best option of networking.
This study is about employing the Ray-Tracing Techniques in resolving the power received from the transmitted signal, through the aid of MATLAB
programming software.
1.2 Project Objectives
There are several objectives regarding to the project undergo that we need to pay attention to so that we can gather all our efforts and time on these following aims
throughout the whole project. The following shows 3 majors objectives of the projects:
1. To study and understand Ray Tracing Technique and Friis Transmission
Equation. 2.
To predict the coverage in terms of the maximum distance and obstacles.
3. To study, understand and master the use of MATLAB 2D in order to visualize
the outputcoverage.
1.3 Problems Statements
1. Present the output coverage in MATLAB 2D.
2. The factors that will lead to reduction in signal strength.
3. The ways to improve these factors to obtain a better signal strength.
1.4 Project Scopes
