Abstract: The performance of wireless networks is highly dependent on the amount of interference experienced by the wireless links. Wireless networks suffer much from interference due to simultaneous traffic flows due to the shared nature of the wireless medium. This worse feature of wireless networks necessitates the prudent modeling of interference to be used in several design areas like channel assignment, routing, etc. Wireless mesh networks are a type of adhoc networks with a static backhaul network. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of different parameters that could possibly contribute to model interference and use the same in the design of interference aware routing metric.