The Achievable Cell Capacity in Cellular Wireless Mesh Networks

We envision a future ubiquitous wireless access network called a cellular wireless mesh network. A cellular wireless mesh network is organized in multi-radio, multi-channel, multi-rate and multi-hop radio cells, each served by a single gateway. We propose the Maximum Channel Collision Time algorithm, which derives an expression for a conservative cell capacity. We prove that the conservative cell capacity is achievable and thus name it the achievable cell capacity. We validate our results with ns-2 simulations.