DocumentCode
719850
Title
Introducing IEEE 802.11ac into existing WLAN deployment scenarios
Author
Abu-Tair, Mamun ; Bhatti, Saleem N.
Author_Institution
Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK
fYear
2015
fDate
25-29 May 2015
Firstpage
30
Lastpage
35
Abstract
In mature wireless LAN (WLAN) deployments, we show that introducing 802.11ac could have little benefit compared to existing 802.11n deployments. Using a testbed with common characteristics for a WLAN deployment, we compare throughput for 802.11ac and 802.11n (in both 5GHz and 2.4GHz bands). We find that 802.11ac has lower throughput than for 802.11n for our testbed configuration. We also provide an evaluation of energy usage for 802.11ac and 802.11n.
Keywords
wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11ac; WLAN deployment; energy usage; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11n Standard; MIMO; Radio frequency; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2015 13th International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Mumbai
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WIOPT.2015.7151029
Filename
7151029
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