Buffer Sizing for Multi-Hop Networks

A computer program product, comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising:
• code to identifying a set of bottleneck nodes in a wireless mesh network;
• code to calculate a cumulative buffer size;
• and
• code to distribute the cumulative buffer size between the set of bottleneck nodes.

A system, comprising:

• a plurality of nodes in a wireless mesh network, each of the plurality of nodes having a buffer and a processor;
• a plurality of communications links coupling the plurality of nodes, each communications link coupling two of the plurality of nodes, in which at least two of the plurality of communications links share spectrum;
• and
• an interference domain comprising the at least two of the plurality of communications links that share resources, the interference domain having a cumulative buffer defined,
• in which the processor of at least one of the plurality of nodes is configured:
• to calculate a size for the cumulative buffer;
• and
• to distribute the cumulative buffer size between the plurality of nodes corresponding to the at least two communications links in the interference domain.