Dimensioning of wireless mesh networks with flow-level QoS requirements

  • Authors:
  • Pasi Lassila;Aleksi Penttinen;Jorma Virtamo

  • Affiliations:
  • Helsinki University of Technology, Finland;Helsinki University of Technology, Finland;Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We study dimensioning of wireless mesh networks with elastic traffic subject to flow-level performance constraints. The objective of the dimensioning is to provide order-of-magnitude estimates of the required transmission resources in the network. The results can be used to evaluate the feasibility and sensitivity of a given network scenario, consisting of node locations, the interference model and the traffic matrix. We apply a network model which incorporates the dynamic flow-level behavior and MAC layer wireless interference. We formulate the dimensioning problems for two capacity parameters resulting from different interference models. Furthermore, three approximation schemes are presented to facilitate the computations. The approaches are illustrated by numerical examples