Comparative Analysis of Gateway Placement Approaches for Wireless Mesh Network

Wireless mesh networks offer high bandwidth Internet access for mobile users anywhere and at any time. It is an emerging technology that uses wireless multi-hop networking to provide a cost-efficient way for community or enterprise users to have broadband Internet access and share network resource. In this paper, we have tried to give a comparative analysis of various Gateway Placement approaches which can be helpful in understanding which approach will be useful in which situation.