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It is becoming increasingly attractive to use wireless nodes in a wireless network as relaying points to extend range and/or reduce costs of a wireless network. For example, in a wireless wide area network (WWAN) or wireless metropoli tan area network (WMAN) that requires deployment of dis tributed base stations across large areas, the base stations need to be connected to a core network and/or each other via Some type of backhaul. In conventional cellular networks, the back haul has typically consisted of wired connections. However, a wireless backhaul, rather than, or in some combination with, a wired backhaul is increasingly being considered to ease deployment and reduce costs associated with these networks. A type of network which uses wireless stations (fixed infra structure and/or mobile stations) to relay signals between a Source and destination is colloquially referred to herein as a mesh network …