Performance analysis of a wireless MAN

Author

Amaro, José Carlos ; Lopes, Rui Pedro

Author_Institution

ESTiG, Polytech. Inst. of Braganga, Braganca, Portugal

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

358

Lastpage

361

Abstract

A wireless network with metropolitan coverage was created to fulfill the data communication requirements for the Braganca Digital City program, part of the Portuguese Digital Cities initiative. The wireless metropolitan area network, based on IEEE 802.11b, still provides both a performant and an economical solution, tailored to the application scenario. Performance measurements have been done in order to apprehend the real network throughput under typical user applications and to have insight into other network characteristics, typical of the wireless medium. A comparison with a wired counterpart is also provided

Keywords

IEEE standards; firmware; metropolitan area networks; performance evaluation; radio access networks; Braganga Digital City program; IEEE 802.11b; Metropolitan Area Network; data communication requirements; performance analysis; performance measurements; real network throughput; wireless MAN; Cities and towns; Data communication; Interference; Network topology; Performance analysis; Protocols; Spread spectrum communication; Testing; Throughput; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Computing and Applications, 2001. NCA 2001. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1432-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCA.2001.962555

Filename

962555