ARIANNA Experiment: WiFi Mesh Communications System

Our project pertains to the establishment of a WiFi Mesh Communications system to serve as a proof of concept which will be applied to the Antarctic Ross Ice-Shelf ANtenna Neutrino Array (ARIANNA) System. The primary goal of this communication system is to enable transmission and reception of data between antennas in an array such that information may be transmitted along a determined path to a base station. In essence, this WiFi Mesh will enable efficient communication between several slave nodes and a master node housed at a centralized base station such that data is able to be transmitted and received over large distances of approximately 1 km. This same concept can be generalized and extended to various fields given that the conditions/constraints and data types are known.