Network Calculus Based Dimensioning for Industrial Wireless Mesh Networks

Abstract. Wireless Mesh network is widely adopted in both wideband mobile communication network and short distance RF industrial network. As for the latter field, network robustness and real-time are two important issues. Network dimensioning is therefore required for this kind of networks. We models wireless mesh network as four tuples and present a topology transform methodology to change the mesh topology to a cluster tree. Research results from network calculus theory are then applied to obtain key merits such as buffer requirement, bandwidth requirement and end to end delay bound.