VoIP Service over Multihop 802.11 Networks with Power Capture and Channel Noise

The quick market growth and ubiquitous acceptance of VoIP are primarily due to cheap service. VoIP services can be availed in mobile devices at a very low cost by employing IEEE 802.11 to provide last mile coverage. But call capacity is very low in these networks and call jitter occurs if voice quality requirements are not precisely met. We present a VoIP call capacity model for 802.11 networks which considers the most important real world factors like power capture and imperfect channel. Incorporating multiple channels can increase call capacity while multihop network can provide considerably large coverage. Our capacity model incorporates the effects of both multiple channels and multihop networks. We also consider the availability of multiple radio interfaces and conference call scenarios for ubiquitous applications of our model. To ensure voice quality, in addition to contention analysis, we also model the queue considering collision domain at each hop and formulate call capacity by estimating precise impairment budget over multihop.