DocumentCode
1541889
Title
How the Weather Impacts on the Performance of an Outdoor WLAN
Author
Bri, Diana ; Fernández-Diego, Marta ; Garcia, Miguel ; Ramos, Francisco ; Lloret, Jaime
Author_Institution
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n. 46022 Valencia, Spain
Volume
16
Issue
8
fYear
2012
fDate
8/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1184
Lastpage
1187
Abstract
It is believed that meteorological factors such as rain, wind or temperature do not affect significantly to wireless systems operating at radio frequencies below 10 GHz. However, using an appropriate statistical analysis to the measurements taken from an outdoor IEEE 802.11b/g WLAN, we show that this is not true. Although these networks operate at 2.4 GHz, we have been able to prove a significant relationship between some meteorological factors and the behavior of several control frames in these networks.
Keywords
Correlation; Mathematical model; Meteorological factors; Meteorology; Radiation detectors; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication; Frame behavior; Spearman's correlation coefficient; meteorological factors; non-parametric statistics; wireless LAN;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1089-7798
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LCOMM.2012.060812.120090
Filename
6218675
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