—Deployment of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is becoming increasingly popular due to the low-impact and lowcost features of wireless devices. This is especially true for WMNs based on IEEE 802.11 which, however, does not include native support for multi-hop relaying. This gap is being filled by the Task Group ‘s’ of the IEEE 802.11 which has recently published an amendment in order to add mesh functions to the popular