Measurement Based Link Capacity for Multiple Interferers in an 802.11-Based Wireless Network

A method comprising the steps of:

• creating a PHY layer model in an 802.11 wireless network of deferral which is whether enough interference power is received to indicate a wireless carrier is busy and of packet capture whether a signal to interference noise ratio SINR is high enough for a packet to be received, the deferral and packet capture being responsive to measurements in a one time profiling done for each interface type;
• seeding the PHY layer model by link-wise measurement of received signal strength RSS values in a target mesh network,
• feeding the PHY layer model to a MAC layer model in the network enabling the MAC layer model amenable to numeric solution evaluating how long the MAC layer stays in appropriate states that contribute to capacity.

The method of claim 11, wherein for an N node network, the measurement requires O(N) measurements steps and provides metrics for all the N(N-1) links in the network.