Wireless mesh network performance: throughput and fairness

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Wireless mesh networks are a new, disruptive technology to provide high-speed last-mile access to rural and urban users. Toronto Hydro, for example, announced that they will build Canada's largest WiFi mesh to provide low-cost Internet access to Toronto residents. While the core building blocks of such networks (radio transmitters and basic networking protocols) exist, many problems remain. In the past few years, my group has worked on a range of multi-hop wireless network topics. In conjunction with a small Ottawa startup company, we built one of the few wireless mesh testbeds in Canada. In the proposed research, we will build on this basis to address one of the core challenges: providing end-users with fair and high-bandwidth (i.e., high throughput) access to the wireless mesh and through it to the Internet.