The effects of microwave oven over the IEEE 802.11 FHSS wireless LAN card

Author

Lee, Yang-Han ; Sheu, Shiann-Tsong ; Chen, Meng-Hong ; Yu, Yao-Chun ; Huang, Yu-Ching

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., TamKang Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

1999

Firstpage

817

Abstract

We have investigated the effects of microwave ovens over the IEEE 802.11 FHSS wireless LAN card. The measured MAC frame error rate (FER) is affected by the microwave ovens. The signal spectrum radiated from the microwave oven can be used to verify the measured FER data. The performance of the specific bands assigned to some geographic locations in the IEEE 802.11 standard have been discussed in the paper. From these measurement results we can obtain that the performance of some channels within the IEEE 802.11 FHSS wireless LAN card can be seriously deteriorated. Therefore, the location of the microwave oven and the specific channels for the wireless LAN card should be pre-determined according to the experience guideline.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; error statistics; frequency hop communication; microwave heating; ovens; radiofrequency interference; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 FHSS wireless LAN card; IEEE 802.11 standard; MAC protocol; frame error rate; geographic locations; measured FER data; measurement results; microwave oven; performance; radiated signal spectrum; Ad hoc networks; Error analysis; Frequency; Interference; Manufacturing; Microwave measurements; Microwave ovens; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.825028

Filename

825028