Experimental sensitivity analysis of wireless protocols in an office environment

Author

Sohal, Gurpreet ; Dowdy, Larry

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Leeds Univ., UK

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

21-25 March 2004

Firstpage

1353

Abstract

This paper provides a methodical experimental evaluation of the 802.11a and 802.11b protocols, presenting an unbiased and independent performance review in a given office environment. Specifically, the bandwidths of the two protocols are compared as a function of distance between the wireless laptops and their access point (AP). In addition, the effects on bandwidth in the presence of interference from competing Bluetooth devices at various distances are also measured. Finally, the performance effects of using two different levels of security (i.e., 64 and 128 bit encryption schemes) are reported.

Keywords

Bluetooth; cryptography; laptop computers; office environment; protocols; radiofrequency interference; telecommunication security; wireless LAN; 802.11b protocol; Bluetooth device; access point; bit encryption scheme; interference; office environment; security; wireless 802.11a; wireless laptop; wireless protocol; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Bluetooth; Communication system security; Cryptography; Interference; Portable computers; Sensitivity analysis; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. WCNC. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8344-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2004.1311639

Filename

1311639