Abstract

The maintenance and provision of ensuring high throughput communication is the central point of the WMNs and Cellular Networks of Wireless communications. The study will focus on wireless mesh and cellular networks to compare their performance in terms of throughput under different conditions and deployments. WMNs are self-healing and multi-hop, due to multi-hop communication and a decentralized architecture. Contrastingly, Cellular Networks are expansive and offer consistent performance, relying on central control and infrastructure-based transmission. These network architectures are analyzed in terms of the average throughput per node, end-to-end delay and spectral efficiency. Other NS-3 research found that WMNs were at an advantage in densely populated urban regions with high user mobility, as they provided efficient routing and load balancing across multiple paths. In rural areas with low population density, cellular networks performed better because of their high data reliability, enabled by centralized scheduling. The paper also discusses interference, node density and mobility patterns in terms of throughput performance. The paper will also focus on analyzing hybrid models integrated with cellular infrastructure and mesh backhaul to leverage both paradigms. The findings would be useful to network planners and policymakers, as they enable the personalization of deployment plans across different situations. This comparative study demonstrates how Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) and Cellular Networks can be used in synergy to deliver high-throughput wireless communication in next-generation networks.