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 6 Effects of varying aCW _min and aCW _max upon RT message streams 3 and 4

aCW_min	aCW_max	Average end-to-end delay (ms)		Deadline miss ratio (%)		Message loss ratio (%)
		Stream 3	Stream 4	Stream 3	Stream 4	Stream 3	Stream 4
1	3	7.34	15.17	10.9	20.0	10.9	12.4
1	7	7.87	15.96	11.0	19.8	10.9	11.7
1	15	8.15	17.07	10.5	20.9	10.5	11.9
⋮	⋮
1	1,023	8.13	18.11	11.2	21.2	11.1	12.4
3	7	8.02	16.70	11.0	20.4	11.0	12.2
3	15	8.72	16.91	10.9	20.0	10.9	11.7
3	31	8.88	16.65	11.0	20.1	10.9	11.9
⋮	⋮
3	1,023	8.30	16.86	10.5	20.5	10.5	12.1
7	15	9.79	18.01	10.4	20.6	10.4	11.8
7	31	10.25	19.21	11.5	21.6	11.4	12.4
7	63	10.55	19.59	11.0	21.3	11.0	11.9
⋮	⋮
7	1,023	10.76	20.03	11.3	21.8	11.1	12.4
15	31	13.59	24.33	10.9	23.2	10.7	11.7
⋮	⋮
15	1,023	14.56	26.03	10.9	23.2	10.6	11.2
⋮	⋮
255	1,023	106.46	215.28	24.5	63.4	11.2	13.9
511	1,023	283.65	527.28	48.7	84.0	11.7	16.5

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