Laboratory Assessment of WLAN Performance Degradation in the Presence of Impulsive Noise

Author

Shan, Qingshan ; Glover, I.A. ; Moore, P.J. ; Portugues, I.E. ; Watson, R.J. ; Rutherford, R. ; Atkinson, Robert ; Bhatti, Shahzad

Author_Institution

Inst. for Commun. & Signal Process., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow

fYear

2008

fDate

6-8 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

859

Lastpage

863

Abstract

A laboratory test to assess the impact of impulsive noise on the performance of WLAN equipment is described. The test is put in the context of a larger programme of work to assess the performance and reliability of wireless equipment subject to partial discharge noise in high voltage electricity supply substations. The character of partial discharge and WLAN technology are briefly reviewed. The laboratory test methodology is reported and some preliminary results are presented. A related forthcoming field-trial for tests of WLAN equipment in a 275/400 kV air-insulated substation is briefly described.

Keywords

impulse noise; partial discharges; substations; telecommunication equipment testing; wireless LAN; WLAN equipment; WLAN performance degradation; high voltage electricity supply substations; impulsive noise; laboratory assessment; partial discharge noise; wireless equipment; Cable insulation; Degradation; Electronic equipment testing; Instruments; Laboratories; Partial discharges; Power transformer insulation; Substations; Wireless LAN; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, 2008. IWCMC '08. International

Conference_Location

Crete Island

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2201-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2202-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWCMC.2008.148

Filename

4600047