Optimal design of survivable mesh networks based on line switched WDM self-healing rings
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
A new model for scheduling packet radio networks
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
IEEE 802.16 based last mile broadband wireless military networks with quality of service support
MILCOM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE conference on Military communications - Volume II
Wireless medium access control protocols
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
A Distributed Channel Access Scheme with Guaranteed Priority and Enhanced Fairness
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Some complexity results about packet radio networks (Corresp.)
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Does the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol work well in multihop wireless ad hoc networks?
IEEE Communications Magazine
Mesh networks: commodity multihop ad hoc networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Differentiated services for wireless mesh backbone
IEEE Communications Magazine
Availability analysis of span-restorable mesh networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Design of an efficient message collecting scheme for the slot-based wireless mesh network
AST/UCMA/ISA/ACN'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Advances in computer science and information technology
A decentralized minislot scheduling protocol (DMSP) in TDMA-based wireless mesh networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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The wireless mesh network (WMN) has been an emerging technology in recent years. Because the transmission medium used in networking backhaul access points (APs) is radio, the wireless mesh network is not only easy and cost effective in deployment, but also has good scalability in coverage area and capacity. This paper provides an overview of distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols, discusses their features and suitability for WMNs and identifies potential challenges and open research issues. Specifically, we overview the technical medium access control of the new standard for WMNs, the mesh deployments of the IEEE 802.16 MAC and we focus on the coordinated distributed scheduling (CDS) scheme of this. Moreover, we assess the fitness of the IEEE 802.11 over wireless mesh networks. Through the study of existing solutions, we analyze the previous work and sketch the contours of the directions to achieve the throughput and the latency that must be guaranteed in WMNs. In this context we suggest future enhancements to the standard that could increase throughput, while also increase the robustness, without complexity increases and propose and evaluate a new distributed scheduling scheme (DSS). We compared the CDS and the DSS and simulations studies document and confirm the positive characteristics of the proposed scheme. Furthermore, we proposed an analytical model to assess a lower bound in terms of delay.