A Study on the Optimal Number of Interfaces in Wireless Mesh Network
Chi Moon, Hwa Jong Kim, Goo Yeon Lee, Choong Kyo Jeong · Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation · 2009
In this paper, we obtain the optimal number of interfaces/channels in wireless mesh networks by simulation. The simulation study is done in static multi-channel multi-interface environment. When many nodes use a single interface and channel and contend for the channel, collisions of RTS/CTS results in network performance degradation. To avoid such degradation and reduce interferences between the adjacent nodes, use of multi-interface/channel is considered. 802.11a and 802.11b systems offer 12 and 3 orthogonal channels respectively and multi-interface/channel scheme could be applied. But rare research about the optimal number of interfaces/channels has been studied. Therefore, in this paper, simulation study for the optimal number of interfaces/channels in wireless mesh network is made.