Peer-to-Peer Selection and Channel Assignment for Wireless Mesh Networks
Marcel Castro C, Durga M Prasad, Andreas Kassler, Stefano Avallone · 2011
Wireless mesh networks are an emerging paradigm for future broadband wireless access networks, with manyapplication areas ranging from content distribution over community networking and providing backhaul networking for sensor devices. In wireless mesh networks, clients connect to wireless routers which are equipped with one or more wireless cards and relay the packets over the wireless links towards internetgateways or the destination. Peer-to-Peer applications are an important class of applications which contributes nowadays to the majority of internet traffic. Therefore, it is important to provide high capacity in the mesh network to support them. However, the capacity of wireless mesh networks depends on many factors such as network topology and size, traffic volume and pattern, interfaces per node and channel assignment scheme used, modulation schemes, routing approaches, etc. In this paper, we develop an analytical framework which allows to estimate theachievable capacity of a wireless mesh network when peer-to-peer applications download many flows simultaneously. The model is based on the collision domain concept and incorporates various channel assignment, replication and peer selection strategies. We investigate the achievable capacity for various scenarios and study the impact of different parameters such as the number of channels or radios used