Research Article

Threshold Accepting Heuristic for Fair Flow Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks

Table 2

IEEE 802.11a MCS, FER 61%, and 1500-byte payload.

MCS Raw rate (Mbps) SINR threshold (dB) Maximum link length (m)

BPSK 1/2 6 3.5 273.5
BPSK 3/4 9 6.5 230.0
QPSK 1/2 12 6.6 228.0
QPSK 3/4 18 9.5 193.7
16-QAM 1/2 24 12.8 160.2
16-QAM 3/4 36 16.2 131.7
64-QAM 2/3 48 20.3 103.8
64-QAM 3/4 54 22.1 93.5