Throughput Capacity Analysis of Large Wireless Mesh Networks, Impact of the Number of Channels and Interfaces
As various wireless networks develop into the next generation to provide better services for users, a key technology, wireless mesh networks (WMNs), has emerged recently. An infrastructure wireless mesh network (InfWMN) is a hierarchical network, consists of mesh clients, mesh routers and gateways. The mesh routers form a wireless mesh infrastructure, to which the mesh clients are connected using star topology. To further improve the flexibility of mesh networking, a mesh router is usually equipped with multiple wireless interfaces.