Performance test of IEEE 802.11ac wireless devices

Author

Narayan, Shaneel ; Jayawardena, Chandimal ; Jiaxin Wang ; Weizhi Ma ; Geetu, Geetu

Author_Institution

UNITEC Inst. of Technol., Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

With the wireless technologies being widely used, it is for sure that all types of wireless networking will become more and more popular now and in the near future. Therefore, measurement-based performance evaluation of different wireless network standards and traffics is becoming very important. In this research paper, the wireless local area network performance differences between IEEE 802.11n and IEEE 802.11ac technologies of both IPv4 and IPv6 on two Windows 7 operating system computers which been implemented 802.11ac network devices is investigated. The results indicated that both IPv4 and IPv6 802.11ac throughput is higher than 802.11n, both ac and n IPv6 mode has lower jitter than IPv4´s. The delay and drop rate metrics were also be measured.

Keywords

IP networks; computer network performance evaluation; operating systems (computers); telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11ac wireless device performance test; IEEE 802.11n technology; IPv4 802.11ac throughput; IPv6 802.11ac throughput; Windows 7 operating system computers; delay rate metrics; drop rate metrics; measurement-based performance evaluation; wireless local area network performance; wireless network standards; wireless technology; Delays; IEEE 802.11n Standard; Jitter; Performance evaluation; Throughput; Wireless communication; IEEE 802.11ac; IEEE 802.11n 2.4 GHz band; IEEE 802.11n 5.0 GHz band; delay; drop rate; jitter; throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6804-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCI.2015.7218076

Filename

7218076