Quantitative Analysis of Wi-Fi in the Presence of Interferers

Author

Yap, Ying Bing ; Li, Li ; Zhang, Bingjian ; Rele, Kunal

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) based networks operate in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz ISM band. This "unlicensed" band is crowded by other wireless devices like baby monitors, Bluetooth based devices, and cordless phones. Microwave Ovens (MWO) are particularly popular unintentional transmitters that also operate in this band. This paper discusses a research focused on quantitatively analyzing the effects of various interferers on Wi- Fi based on metrics such as average data rates, number of packets transmitted, total power, retry rate and CRC error rate. This analysis will be a key element in designing and comparing various interference mitigation mechanisms in Wi-Fi and implementing restrictions on proprietary devices.

Keywords

wireless LAN; Bluetooth based devices; CRC error rate; Wi-Fi; average data rates; baby monitors; cordless phones; frequency 2.4 GHz; microwave ovens; quantitative analysis; retry rate; total power; wireless devices; wireless fidelity; Bluetooth; FCC; Interference; Microwave devices; Microwave ovens; Pediatrics; Radio frequency; Spread spectrum communication; Transmitters; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2308-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2309-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784704

Filename

4784704