On Achieving the Maximum Internet Capacity in Wireless Mesh Networks

A Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is connected by multiple wireless mesh routers that are able to operate multiple channels for increased network capacity. As other wireless networks, the network capacity is a fundamental issue in the WMN. The analytical results in this paper show that the upper bound of network capacity lambda scales Theta(Wf/cradicn) if the number of infrastructure nodes m is significantly less than the number of MRs (n). Only when m asymptotically grows with n, the network capacity achieves Theta(Wfm/(n(2-P)c)), resulting in significant capacity gain. We shows the WMN upper bounds of the infrastructure network capacity eta and its ad hoc capacity zeta as well.