TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental performance evaluation of wireless 802.11b networks
AU - Fadhah, Asma Bait
AU - Al-Lawati, Athra'
AU - Al-Maskari, Sara
AU - Touzene, Abderezak
AU - Al-Kindi, Ahmed
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - According to the IEEE 802.11b/g standard (WiFi) should have a range of 300-500 ft (about 152m). The 2.4GHz frequency band used by WiFi devices is divided into 11 (in FCC) (or 13 in ETSI) partially overlapping channels. It is claimed that by using frequency bands that are at least four channels apart (non-overlapping channels) interference between those channels is avoided. We carried out two types of experiments to measure the effect of the distance and the claimed non-overlapping channels on the bit rate. From the first study, we experimentally derived a model of distance versus throughput. The second study has confirmed that the interference between the channels cannot be avoided even when using non-overlapping channels. The experiments also showed that by increasing the distance between the networks that are using non-overlapping channels, the effect of the interference decreases.
AB - According to the IEEE 802.11b/g standard (WiFi) should have a range of 300-500 ft (about 152m). The 2.4GHz frequency band used by WiFi devices is divided into 11 (in FCC) (or 13 in ETSI) partially overlapping channels. It is claimed that by using frequency bands that are at least four channels apart (non-overlapping channels) interference between those channels is avoided. We carried out two types of experiments to measure the effect of the distance and the claimed non-overlapping channels on the bit rate. From the first study, we experimentally derived a model of distance versus throughput. The second study has confirmed that the interference between the channels cannot be avoided even when using non-overlapping channels. The experiments also showed that by increasing the distance between the networks that are using non-overlapping channels, the effect of the interference decreases.
KW - 802.11
KW - Log-distance model
KW - Non-overlapping channels
KW - Performance evaluation
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U2 - 10.1109/ICADIWT.2008.4664335
DO - 10.1109/ICADIWT.2008.4664335
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:57949111061
SN - 9781424426249
T3 - 1st International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, ICADIWT 2008
SP - 151
EP - 155
BT - 1st International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, ICADIWT 2008
T2 - 1st International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, ICADIWT 2008
Y2 - 4 August 2008 through 6 August 2008
ER -