Experimental study of 802.11n network

Commercial solution for 802.11n has been made available in the market for quite some time. It is steadily gaining popularity due to its promise of maximum physical (PHY) data rate up to 600 Mbps. However, the 802.11n firmware is not publicly available compared to the 802.11a/b/g firmware. Thus, we hardly found any experimental study on 802.11n from the wireless local area network (WLAN) research community using commercial 802.11n solution. We have had the opportunity to access the 802.11n firmware due to the development works carried out in our institute. In this paper, we have conducted the measurement study on the 802.11n network deployment issues raised by the WLAN research community. We believe that this paper is indeed useful for system administrators for 802.11n network planning and deployment.