Measured performance of a wireless LAN

Author

Duchamp, Dan ; Reynolds, Neil F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

13-16 Sep 1992

Firstpage

494

Lastpage

499

Abstract

The performance of a high-speed commercial spread-spectrum wireless LAN that uses the CSMA/CA multiple-access strategy was studied. Using synthetic workloads, packet capture success rather than signal propagation characteristics was measured. Specifically throughput, packet loss rates, range, and patterns of errors within packets were measured. It is concluded that CSMA/CA is quite successful in allocating bandwidth under stress, but that packet capture rate degrades very quickly once the LAN´s effective range is exceeded. Hence, network maintainers should plan the layout of wireless networks at least as carefully as they plan wired networks

Keywords

carrier sense multiple access; local area networks; performance evaluation; spread spectrum communication; CSMA/CA multiple-access strategy; measured performance; packet capture success; packet loss rates; spread-spectrum wireless LAN; synthetic workloads; throughput; wireless LAN; Computer science; Fading; Frequency modulation; Local area networks; Modems; Multiaccess communication; Spread spectrum communication; Telephony; Throughput; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1992. Proceedings., 17th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3095-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1992.228152

Filename

228152