Performance Evaluation of 802.11e over Multihop WiFi Mesh Networks

Abstract—A multihop WiFi mesh network is a wireless network that provides multihop data forwarding services base on 802.11 technologies. However, the original 802.11 MAC and all the recent MAC enhancements (e.g., 11e, 11i, 11k) are designed primarily for one-hop wireless networks and thus, provide no end-to-end consideration or coordination beyond a single hop at all. In this paper, the performance of 802.11e over the multihop WiFi mesh network is investigated. Keywords- medium access control, wireless mesh networks I