In traditional wireless networks such as cellular phone networks and wireless local area networks (WiFi hotspots), data travels only over a single wireless link between the wireless devices and the base station. In order to cover a large area, such as a city or a campus, these networks rely on the installation of a large number of expensive base stations. In a wireless mesh network, a network of wireless routers is used to propagate data packets from the wireless devices to the base station. This approach makes it possible to cover large areas more economically as wireless routers are cheaper, and can more easily installed, compared with base station. In our group, we are developing a novel network architecture for wireless networks that is both very simple and highly efficient. The resulting networks can be implemented using the simplest and cheapest technology currently available, yet allows users to achieve a network performance that is on par with or better than the most sophisticated and expensive approaches.