Real-time communication in IEEE 802.11s mesh networks: simulation assessment considering the interference of non-real-time traffic sources

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 5 Effects of varying aCW _min and aCW _max upon RT message streams 1 and 2

aCW_min	aCW_max	Average end-to-end delay (ms)		Deadline miss ratio (%)		Message loss ratio (%)
		Stream 1	Stream 2	Stream 1	Stream 2	Stream 1	Stream 2
1	3	11.27	8.36	16.2	12.5	10.1	12.5
1	7	12.15	8.76	16.7	12.3	10.1	12.3
1	15	12.47	9.03	16.8	12.8	10.1	12.7
⋮	⋮
1	1,023	13.62	9.28	16.7	13.1	9.5	13.0
3	7	13.20	9.36	16.6	12.1	9.8	12.1
3	15	13.36	9.59	16.4	12.2	9.6	12.2
3	31	13.90	9.74	17.0	12.3	10.0	12.3
⋮	⋮
3	1,023	13.03	9.79	15.9	12.3	9.5	12.3
7	15	14.30	11.02	16.7	12.2	9.9	12.1
7	31	16.68	11.68	17.5	11.8	9.6	11.7
7	63	16.31	11.70	17.3	12.0	9.5	11.9
⋮	⋮
7	1,023	16.84	12.72	17.7	12.8	9.8	12.6
15	31	21.92	14.79	19.9	12.6	9.9	12.4
⋮	⋮
15	1,023	24.08	15.42	20.6	12.5	9.7	12.2
⋮	⋮
255	1,023	220.41	109.79	63.2	26.2	11.7	12.8
511	1,023	542.52	279.33	83.7	50.2	14.5	14.2

The italicized values represent the RT communication performance when using EDCA voice class, i.e., aCW _min= 3 and aCW _max= 7.