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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Class of Service Support Layer for Wireless Mesh Networks

  AUTHORS: Jukka SUHONEN, Timo D. HAMALAINEN, Marko HANNIKAINEN

  KEYWORDS: Wireless LAN, Wireless Sensor Network, Scheduling, Traffic Control (Communication), Quality of Service

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol.3 No.2, March 1, 2010

  ABSTRACT: This paper presents an add-on Class of Service (CoS) layer for wireless mesh networks. The proposed protocol is applicable for contention-based MACs and is therefore compatible with most of the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) protocols. The protocol has a locally centralized control for managing data flows, which either reserve a fixed bandwidth or are weighted by fair scheduling. The protocol reduces transmission collisions, thus improving the overall throughput. IEEE 802.11 adhoc WLAN has been taken as a platform for simulations and prototyping for evaluating the protocol performance. Network Simulator Version 2 (NS2) simulations show that the CoS protocol efficiently differentiates bandwidth, supports bandwidth reservations, and reaches less than 10 ms transfer delay on IEEE 802.11b WLAN. Testing with a full prototype implementation verified the performance of the protocol.