Review of methodology and design of broadband wireless networks with linear topology

Creation of a modern infrastructure for multimedia data (voice, data, video) transmission along the long transport routes is one of the most important problems while designing and building up the new highways and exploiting the existing ones. The solution of this problem is especially relevant for countries with a vast territory, like the Russian Federation. Creation of such communication infrastructure allows to provide (i) the operating control over the technical parameters of a route by the means of high-speed data transfer from sensors and data units to the control center (ii) the security control over the route sections and strategically important objects using data from the video surveillance systems and (iii) the voice communication (IP-telephony) and transmission of multimedia information between the stationary and mobile objects on long highways as well as communication with the control center etc. © 2016, The Indian National Science Academy.