Wireless network intelligence

First of all, given a wireless mesh node with a number of wireless interfaces for the backhaul, it needs to decide which radio to use to talk to which neighbor. If the number of neighbors is larger than its number of interfaces, a decision needs to be made which links to form. Does the node make a tradeoff and split the bandwidth of some of its radios to reach all its neighbors directly (single hop), or will it choose to dedicate all available bandwidth to a subset of its neighbors, and infer that it will be able to reach all others through this subset (multi hop).

The second problem that needs to be solved is how to do perform the end-to-end connectivity. After each mesh node has established links with its direct neighbors, how is a packet send across the network to its destination? Depending on the architecture of the wireless mesh, this can be solved either on the MAC layer (using techniques similar to spanning tree inside switches), or on the IP networking layer using a variety of routing protocols.