Rey-Moreno, CarlosTucker, William DavidSimo-Reigadas, Javier2014-07-022014-07-022013Rey-Moreno, C., Tucker, W. D. & Simo-Reigadas, J. (2013). Tuning a mid-range rural WiFi-based mesh network. In Proc. 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (ACM DEV-4). Cape Town, South Africa, Article 30978-1-4503-2558-5http://hdl.handle.net/10566/1114Little is known about how mid-range, or several km, dis- tances a ect multipoint-to-multipoint links when single ra- dio nodes with omnidirectional antennas are used. In this poster, a real network with these characteristics is described and empirical results of its performance are presented. In particular, the e ect of increasing the SlotTime value for optimizing the aggregated throughput has been analyzed. Results show the need to increase the SlotTime to consider- ably bigger values than those oberved for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint long-range links. With the new value of SlotTime, an increase of 115% in aggregated throughput was obtained over the standard Slottime value.enCopyright ACM. This file may be freely used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Acknowledgement of the authors and the source is requiredNetwork architecture and designNetwork topologyWireless communicationOptimizationTelecommunicationsConference Proceedings