Performance Evaluation of the MESH-DQDC Protocol

In this work, we focus on a WLANs mesh, i.e., an ad hoc, IEEE 802.11-based network whose nodes are either user devices or access points providing access to the mesh network or to the Internet. By relying on some work about IEEE 802.11 MAC analysis, we consider mesh-DQDC protocol and present an analytical model of the MAC scheme, through which we show that the protocol achieves high throughput both in regular and in very fragmented mesh topologies when compared to the standard 802.11 solution. Also the proposed analytical model is validated through OMNet ++ simulator.