  Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is surely one of the prominent networks in the
modern era which is widely used in numerous evolving applications, viz.
broadband home networking (BHN), community and neighbourhood networks (CNN),
coordinated network management (CNM), and intelligent transportation systems
(ITS), etc. It is a wireless network (WN) with multi-hop formed by many fixed
wireless mesh routers (WMR) that are connected wirelessly with a mesh-alike
backbone arrangement. In the IEEE 802.11s network, the node selection,
scalability, stability, density of the nodes, mobility of the nodes,
transmission power, and routing are major issues that WMN suffers. In this
paper, a critical review of MAC protocols and their Quality of Service (QoS)
parameters for WMN is presented to attain a better understanding of MAC
protocols. Furthermore, the critical comparative analysis and recommendation of
MAC procedures for WMN using Multi-objective optimization and statistical
testing framework are performed. This framework is used for the analysis and
recommendation of different protocols available for QoS parameters.
