Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are new emerging multi-hop wireless networks that offer low-cost high-bandwidth community wireless services. Much work has been done so far in order to enhance the performance of these networks. In this paper, by using a simplified version of the optimization framework provided by Antonio Capone et al., we study the impact of using some advanced wireless communication techniques on the performance improvement of WMNs. These techniques are using multiple radios/multiple channels (MR-MC), dynamic power control, and rate adaptation. In this way, we use network optimization algorithms based on joint routing, link scheduling and static channel assignment. Simulation results show that using power control, rate adaption and MR-MC strategy significantly improves network efficiency in terms of throughput, load balancing and delay.