Capacity bounds for cellular wireless mesh networks

Abstract

A wireless transmitter can use a channel to transmit bits over distance per second (in general, either more bits over shorter distance or fewer bits over longer distance). We call this the Channel Transport Capacity. This paper analyzes how the one-hop channel transport capacity limits multi-hop network capacity in cellular wireless mesh networks. The main results of this paper are analytic expressions for capacity bounds for multi-radio, multi-channel, multi-rate, multi-hop and carrier sense based cells in cellular wireless mesh networks. We validated our analytic results with simulations.