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The smart phone usage and multimedia devices have been increasing day by day and drastic increase of wireless technologies in these gadgets have been predicted for upcoming years. As data plans offered by the network service providers are expensive, users are inclined to utilize freely accessible and commonly available Wi-Fi networks indoors. LTE (Long Term Evolution) has been a topic of discussion in providing high data rates outdoors and various service providers are planning to roll out LTE networks all over the world. On the other hand, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are becoming popular for their flexibility and low cost in both indoors and outdoors applications. The objective of this presentation is to compare usefulness of these two leading wireless schemes based on LTE and WMN and bring forward their advantages for indoor and outdoor environments. Both these networks are heterogeneous in nature, employ cognitive approach and support multi-hop communication. We also investigate to see if a hybrid LTE-WMN network may be feasible. The main motivation behind this work is to utilize similarities in these networks, explore their capability of offering high data rates and generally have large coverage areas. In this work, we compare both these networks in terms of their data rates, range, cost, throughput, and power consumption. We also compare 802.11n based WMN with Femto cell in an indoor coverage scenario; while for outdoors, 802.16 based WMN is compared with LTE. The main objective is to help users select a network that could provide enhanced performance in a cost effective manner.
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Chintapalli, S., Weragama, N., Agrawal, D.P. (2013). Selecting LTE and Wireless Mesh Networks for Indoor/Outdoor Applications. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013. ICCSA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7975. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39640-3_10
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