A wireless LAN measurement method based on RSSI and FER

Author

Yang, Sheng-Hua ; Lee, Yang-Han ; Yen, Rinfield Y. ; Zheng, Yu-Jie ; Sheu, Shiann-Tsong ; KO, Chih-Hui ; Chen, Meng-Hong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tamkang Univ., Hsien, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

1999

Firstpage

821

Abstract

The indoor radio environment is very complex, so it is very difficult to design a wireless LAN to provide both a good coverage region and a large number of wireless subscribers. Therefore, determining the good locations of users within the indoor wireless communication environment is very important. We propose a wireless LAN measurement method which uses the wireless LAN card instead of signal generator and two parameters (RSSI, FER) to survey the transmission quality within the indoor environment. We also discuss the performance degradation caused by an iron and a microwave oven.

Keywords

error statistics; fading channels; indoor radio; microwave heating; multipath channels; ovens; radiofrequency interference; radiowave propagation; spread spectrum communication; wireless LAN; DS-SS baseband processor; FER; RSSI; coverage region; direct sequence spread spectrum; indoor path loss; indoor radio environment; indoor wireless communication environment; iron; microwave oven; multipath fading; performance degradation; transmission quality; wireless LAN card; wireless LAN measurement method; wireless indoor propagation measurements; Baseband; Fading; Frequency; Indoor environments; Indoor radio communication; Iron; Microwave devices; Microwave ovens; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.825029

Filename

825029