Distributed Scheduling Schemes for Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey

Abstract

An efficient scheduling scheme is a crucial part of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs)an emerging communication infrastructure solution for autonomy, scalability, higher throughput, lower delay metrics, energy efficiency, and other service-level guarantees. Distributed schedulers are preferred due to better scalability, smaller setup delays, smaller management overheads, no single point of failure, and for avoiding bottlenecks. Based on the sequence in which nodes access the shared medium, repetitiveness, and determinism, distributed schedulers that are supported by wireless mesh standards can be classified as either random, pseudo-random, or cyclic schemes.We performed qualitative and quantitati..