IEEE 802.11 is good enough to build wireless multi-hop networks
Apoorva Jindal · ProQuest Demo Repository · 2012
This work formally establishes that IEEE 802.11 yields exceptionally good performance in the context of wireless multi-hop networks. A common misconception is that existing CSMA-CA random access schemes like IEEE 802.11 yield unfair and inefficient rates in wireless multi-hop networks. This misconception is based on works which study IEEE 802.11-scheduled multi-hop networks with TCP or in saturation conditions both of which grossly underutilize the available capacity that IEEE 802.11 provides, or use topologies which cannot occur in practice due to physical layer limitations.