Architecture and Topology
The city of Patras is built around a hill, Alsos Hill (100 m alt.), the highest point in the city. It is also the location of the central Access Point and the reason for the uniqueness in the network design. The network started with a "star" topology. All clients or access point were connected through the main Access Point in Aroe hill. This topology is severely flawed, mainly due to the hidden node problem, so the network moved to a bus-ring topology, providing more reliability to the users.
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