Mesh failing using gateway, base point, and mesh point

[Lynx]

Thanks. Since your responses are so insightful, and I am likely testing your patience, but what about the typical home scenario in which there is very often just one main router and say two or three wireless extension points.

Would the following be reasonable:

1. if the main router sits approximately in the middle of the wireless extension points, use WDS (with all extensions points connected to the main router)

2. else, use 802.11s.

The main consideration being the geometry of the mesh and location of the router relative to access points. Since if the router is not located in the middle then this may hurt WDS.

Are there any studies on the relative throughputs between different technologies? I came across one but it was very outdated.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Efficiency-of-WLAN-802.11xx-in-the-multi-hop-Kubal/14715c0bfd1f2120c8afca6676d3d16d4ea1b582

This includes OLSR.

802.11s vs WDS vs OLSR

The paper is not very rigorous. Different hardware was used for the OLSR case. The testing was conducted with all nodes in strong radio range of each other (in the same room), with an attempt to impose fixed routing to force a number of hops. The authors also seem unaware that the three systems are different in how they do layer 1 channel access. Which really is the only difference being considered, since routes are fixed there is no need for a mesh routing layer. There is also no considera…