Conference paper
Measuring the reliability of 802.11 WiFi networks
2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA)
Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA), 2015 (Wrexham, Wales, 08/09/2015–11/09/2015)
2015
Abstract
Over half of the transmission time in WiFi networks is dedicated to ensuring that errors are corrected or detected. Despite these mechanisms, many studies have concluded that frame error rates vary. An increased understanding of why frames are lost is a pragmatic approach to improving real world 802.11 throughput. The potential beneficiaries of this research, include rate control algorithms, Modulation and Coding Schemes, simulation models, frame size selection and 802.11 configuration guidelines. This paper presents a measurement study of the factors which correlate with packet loss in 802.11 WiFi. Both passive and active approaches were used to investigate how the frame size, modulation and coding scheme and airtime effect the loss rate. Overall, packet errors were high, but the size of frames were not a major determinant of the loss rate. The loss rate decreased with the airtime but at substantially lower rates than those suggested in simple packet error models. Future work will further try to isolate and investigate specific errors, such as head on collisions in the preamble.
Details
- Title
- Measuring the reliability of 802.11 WiFi networks
- Authors/Creators
- D. Murray (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityT. Koziniec (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityM. Dixon (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityK. Lee (Author/Creator) - Nottingham Trent University
- Publication Details
- 2015 Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA)
- Conference
- Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA), 2015 (Wrexham, Wales, 08/09/2015–11/09/2015)
- Identifiers
- 991005542690507891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Engineering and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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