Wireless mesh network capacity achievable over the CSMA/CA MAC

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3151-3165

  Cheng, Yu ^a   Li, Hongkun ^a   Wan, Peng Jun ^b   Wang, Xinbing ^c  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA CA); conflict graph; multicommodity flow (MCF); network capacity; wireless mesh network

Indexed keywords

BACKHAUL NETWORKS; CAPACITY PLANNING; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCES; CENTRALIZED SCHEDULING; CONFLICT GRAPH; CSMA/CA; GENERIC METHOD; LOWER BOUNDS; MAXIMUM THROUGH-PUT; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; MULTI-COMMODITY FLOW; NETWORK CAPACITY; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; NS-2 SIMULATIONS; OPTIMAL NETWORKS; RANDOM ACCESS; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS; UPPER BOUND; WIRELESS MESH;

FLOW GRAPHS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; SCHEDULING; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84866487853     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2204411     Document Type: Article

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