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Empirical analysis of the single-radio mesh architecture: performance limitations and challenges

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Cedric Westphal,

Sami TakalaAuthors Info & Claims

IWCMC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing

Pages 541 - 546

https://doi.org/10.1145/1280940.1281056

Published: 12 August 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Wireless mesh networks are being deployed to provide broadband wireless connectivity to city-wide hotspots. The most successful commercial architecture in these deployments thus far is a single-radio architecture: mesh nodes carry only one radio, which is used both to receive the traffic from the WiFi clients and to relay this traffic through the mesh to the wired internet gateway.

In this paper, we study the performance of a representative single radio mesh network and evaluate several key quantities: the fairness in the bandwidth allocation, the impact of the hidden node terminal, and the number of concurrent VoIP supported by the network.

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He TChan SWong C(2008)HomeMeshIEEE Communications Magazine10.1109/MCOM.2008.468921146:12(79-85)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2008
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Arjona AWestphal CManner JYlä-Jääski ATakala S(2008)Can the current generation of wireless mesh networks compete with cellular voice?Computer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2008.01.04331:8(1564-1578)Online publication date: 20-May-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.comcom.2008.01.043

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IWCMC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing

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DOI:10.1145/1280940

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Naor JRaz DScalosub G(2009)Toward Optimal Utilization of Shared Random Access ChannelsIEEE INFOCOM 2009 - The 28th Conference on Computer Communications10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062129(2061-2069)Online publication date: Apr-2009
https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062129
He TChan SWong C(2008)HomeMeshIEEE Communications Magazine10.1109/MCOM.2008.468921146:12(79-85)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/MCOM.2008.4689211
Arjona AWestphal CManner JYlä-Jääski ATakala S(2008)Can the current generation of wireless mesh networks compete with cellular voice?Computer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2008.01.04331:8(1564-1578)Online publication date: 20-May-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.comcom.2008.01.043

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