Large-scale wireless LAN design

Author

Hills, Alex

Author_Institution

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

39

Issue

11

fYear

2001

fDate

11/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

107

Abstract

The design of a large-scale wireless LAN poses a number of interesting questions. Building the Wireless Andrew network at Carnegie Mellon University has given us the opportunity to deal with these questions. This article describes the approaches we have developed for the design of similar networks. A large-scale wireless LAN must be designed so that all of the target space has radio coverage (i.e., there are no coverage gaps). It must also be designed so that its capacity is adequate to carry the expected load. These requirements generally can be met by using the proper combination of access point locations, frequency assignments, and receiver threshold settings

Keywords

frequency allocation; indoor radio; radio access networks; radio receivers; wireless LAN; Carnegie Mellon University; Wireless Andrew network; access point locations; capacity; frequency assignments; large-scale wireless LAN design; radio coverage; receiver threshold settings; Computer interfaces; Large-scale systems; Local area networks; Mobile antennas; Mobile computing; Radio transmitters; Receivers; Receiving antennas; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.965365

Filename

965365