A performance model for integrated wireless mesh networks and WLANs with heterogeneous stations.

Wu, Yulei; Min, Geyong; Li, Keqiu; Al-Dubai, Ahmed

Abstract

The increasing demand for the coverage of high-speed wireless local area networks (WLANs) is driving the installation of a very large number of access points. Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged as a promising technology in next generation networks to provide economical and scalable broadband access to wireless interconnection of multiple access points which manage individual WLANs in order to extend the coverage of conventional single WLANs. Due to various types of applications with particular purposes running at different WLANs, the traffic generated by stations in different WLANs possess a high degree of heterogeneity. To the best of our knowledge, there is hardly any analytical model reported in the current literature to handle heterogeneous network traffic in the integrated WMNs and WLANs. To fill this gap, we develop a new analytical model to investigate the Quality-of-Service (QoS) performance metrics in WMNs interconnecting multiple WLANs with heterogeneous stations. The Poisson process is employed to model the traffic of non-bursty data applications and the Markov modulated Poisson process (MMPP) is used to model the traffic of bursty multimedia applications. Extensive simulation experiments are conducted to validate the accuracy of the analytical model.

Citation

Wu, Y., Min, G., Li, K., & Al-Dubai, A. (2009). A performance model for integrated wireless mesh networks and WLANs with heterogeneous stations. In GLOBECOM 2009 - 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425390

• Conference Name: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE GLOBECOM 2009
• Conference Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
• Start Date: Nov 30, 2009
• End Date: Dec 4, 2009
• Online Publication Date: Dec 1, 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Deposit Date: Jun 28, 2010
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1-6
• Book Title: GLOBECOM 2009 - 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
• ISBN: 9781424441488
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425390
• Keywords: wireless local area networks; wireless mesh networks; scalable broadband; multiple access points; quality of service
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3764
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425390