TCP/IP throughput over an outdoor multi-hop wireless LAN

Author

Aziz, F.M. ; Woerner, B.D.

fYear

2004

fDate

22-22 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

311

Lastpage

314

Abstract

Today, wireless LANs are being increasingly used for providing cost effective data networking and connectivity solutions for both indoor and outdoor applications. Multi-hop wireless LANs provide greater coverage and improved feasibility of network deployment over large areas. IEEE 802.11b is one of the most commonly deployed wireless LANs around the world. Its use for outdoor applications, such as telemetry, traffic surveillance, rescue operations, etc., requires us to test its performance under real world outdoor scenarios. We present some network performance results collected over a real world multi-hop outdoor data network. The results focus on TCP/IP performance over an IEEE 802.11b based network. The results show the trend of a network´s end-to-end throughput with increasing number of hops and mobility.

Keywords

data communication; delays; mobile radio; transport protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11b; TCP/IP throughput; connectivity; data network; delay; mobile communication; outdoor multi-hop wireless LAN; rescue operations; telemetry; traffic surveillance; Performance analysis; Spine; Spread spectrum communication; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic; Telemetry; Testing; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Conference, 2004 IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8451-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAWCON.2004.1389138

Filename

1389138