A GA-Based Simulation System for WMNs: Performance Analysis of WMN-GA System for Different WMN Architectures and Uniform Distribution Considering DCF and EDCA

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are attracting a lot of attention from wireless network researchers. Node placement problems have been investigated for a long time in the optimization field due to numerous applications in location science. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of two WMN architectures considering throughput, delay, jitter and fairness index metrics. For simulations, we used ns-3 and Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR). We compare the performance for Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) for uniform distribution of mesh clients by sending multiple Constant Bit Rate (CBR) flows in the network. The simulation results show that for I/B WMN, the throughput of EDCA is a little bit higher than Hybrid WMN. However, for Hybrid WMN, the throughput of DCF is higher than EDCA. The delay and jitter of both architectures are almost the same. However, in the case of DCF for 20 flows, the delay and jitter of I/B WMN is a lower compared with Hybrid WMN. The fairness index of 10 flows is higher than other flows for both WMN architectures.