Title :
Comparative performance studies of laboratory WPA IEEE 802.11g point-to-point links
Author :
De Carvalho, José A R Pacheco ; Veiga, H. ; Marques, Nuno ; Pacheco, Cláudia F F P Ribeiro ; Reis, A.D.
Author_Institution :
Unidade de Deteccao Remota, Univ. da Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal
Abstract :
Wireless communications using microwaves are increasingly important, e.g. Wi-Fi. Performance is a very important issue, resulting in more reliable and efficient communications. Security is equally very important. Laboratory measurements are made about several performance aspects of Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11g WPA point-to-point links. A contribution is given to performance evaluation of this technology under WPA encryption, using available wireless routers from Linksys (WRT54GL). Detailed results are presented and discussed, namely at OSI levels 4 and 7, from TCP, UDP and FTP experiments, permitting measurements of TCP throughput, jitter, percentage datagram loss and FTP transfer rate. Comparisons are made to corresponding results obtained for, mainly, open links. Conclusions are drawn about the comparative performance of the links.
Keywords :
computer network performance evaluation; computer network security; cryptography; transport protocols; wireless LAN; FTP experiments; FTP transfer rate; Linksys; TCP throughput; UDP; WPA encryption; Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11g WPA point-to-point links; comparative performance studies; jitter; laboratory WPA IEEE 802.11g point-to-point links; microwaves; percentage datagram loss; security; wireless communications; wireless routers; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Jitter; Laboratories; Open systems; Security; Throughput; Wireless communication; IEEE 802.11a; IEEE 802.11g; WEP Point-to-Point Links; WLAN; Wi-Fi; Wireless Network Laboratory Performance;
Conference_Titel :
Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2012 8th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Poznan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1472-6
DOI :
10.1109/CSNDSP.2012.6292760
