Evaluation of QoS provisioning in nodes of Wireless Mesh Networks based on IEEE 802.11s

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are data networks with mesh topology formed by nodes that establish and maintain the network connectivity automatically. They also provide a cheap, quick and effective way for building wireless data networks in urban, suburban and rural environments solution. These require a routing protocol such as the IEEE 802.11s standard. For proper operation, in addition to routing, the WMNS require support of Quality of Service (QoS), that is, the ability of the network to guarantee a certain level of performance to a flow, mainly for multimedia traffic. In this paper we evaluate the in Nodes of a Wireless Mesh Network based on IEEE 802.11s developed with OpenWRT (an open source firmware) measuring parameters such as bandwidth, jitter and higher packet loss, depending on the type of information stream. The importance of this study is to verify the ability to create low-cost WMNs in rural, inaccessible environments, and reduce the digital divide.