Title :
Performance Analysis on Utilizing Directional Antenna in High-Density WLAN
Author :
Li, Guoqing ; Zhu, Jing
Author_Institution :
Intel Corp., Hillsboro
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a performance study of applying directional antenna to infrastructure-based wireless LAN networks. We focus on high-density (HD) deployment, in which multiple cells are operated on the same channel due to limited non-overlapped channels, and thus network capacity is limited mainly by co-channel interference. Network throughput and fairness index are studied for performance evaluation. Based on the simulation results, we provide insights on how directional antenna should be implemented in a HD-WLAN and how performance scales with network and antenna configurations.
Keywords :
cochannel interference; directive antennas; wireless LAN; antenna configurations; cochannel interference; directional antenna; fairness index; high-density WLAN; infrastructure-based wireless LAN networks; network capacity; network throughput; nonoverlapped channels; Communications technology; Deafness; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; High definition video; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Throughput; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Networking, 2007. ICN '07. Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Martinique
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2805-8
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7695-2805-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICN.2007.68
