Towards the performance analysis of IEEE 802.16 backbone Mesh networks

In this paper, we consider a hybrid network with IEEE 802.16 based mesh for the backbone network and an IEEE 802.11 based indoor wireless network for the access network. The packets generated by the IEEE 802.11 network feed traffic into the backbone network. We use a jackson network approximation to model the mesh network. We present approaches to determine the routing probabilities and service rate of nodes in the jackson network from the mesh network configurations. We also identify various metrics to determine the performance of the mesh network that will help in capacity planning and resource allocation in the wireless mesh network