A Distributed Sequential Link Schedule Combined with Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

This letter proposes a new distributed scheduling scheme combined with routing to support the quality of service of real‐time applications in wireless mesh networks. Next, this letter drives average end‐to‐end delay of the proposed scheduling scheme that sequentially schedules the slots on a path. Finally, this letter simulates the time division multiple access network for performance comparison. From the simulation results, when the average number of hops is 2.02, 2.66, 4.1, 4.75, and 6.3, the proposed sequential scheduling scheme reduces the average end‐to‐end delay by about 28%, 10%, 17%, 27%, and 30%, respectively, compared to the conventional random scheduling scheme.