Understanding the Use of a Campus Wireless Network
David Schwab, Rick Bunt · 2005
Like many organizations, the University of Saskatchewan is deploying wireless access technology across the organization. Rather than complete coverage we have opted for incremental deployment, with our placement strategy driven by the demands of our users. Analysis of user behaviour is critical to our approach. We present the details of our methodology and results from our analysis to date. Authentication server logs and packet traces were gathered throughout the 2003/04 academic year and were analyzed to answer questions of where, when, how much, and for what our wireless network is used. We compare our current results to earlier measurements in order to show how a wireless network grows and usage changes over time. Such information is applicable to the evaluation of the wireless network design, the validation of simulation models and the planning of future network expansion, on our campus and others.