Fig 1.
A wireless mesh network consists of two gateway routers, eight mesh routers and twenty-one clients.
Fig 2.
Illustration of coverage overlap between two mesh routers.
Fig 3.
Illustrate the lower and upper bounds of the search space in the RNP problem.
Table 1.
The parameters of simulation scenarios.
Table 2.
The parameters of algorithms.
Fig 4.
Compare topologies when using the MVO algorithm to solve the RNP problem by different methods.
(a) traditional method (one-stage) and (b) proposed method (two-stages).
Fig 5.
Compare topologies when using the WOA algorithm to solve the RNP problem by different methods.
(a) traditional method (one-stage) and (b) proposed method (two-stages).
Table 3.
NC statistics versus total routers over 50 runs replicate per scenario using the MVO algorithm with various approaches.
Fig 6.
Compare NC versus the number of routers using MVO algorithm with different methods.
Fig 7.
Compare NC versus the number of routers using WOA algorithm with different methods.
Table 4.
NC statistics versus total routers over 50 replicate runs per scenario using the WOA algorithm with various approaches.
Fig 8.
Compare NC versus the number of clients using MVO algorithm with different methods.
Fig 9.
Compare NC versus the number of clients using WOA algorithm with different methods.
Table 5.
NC statistics versus total clients over 50 runs per scenario using the MVO algorithm with various approaches.
Fig 10.
Compare NC versus the network area using MVO algorithm with different methods in case of 36 mesh routers.
Fig 11.
Compare NC versus the network area using MVO algorithm with different methods in case of 40 mesh routers.