WLAN planning and performance evaluation
Salem Lepaja, Arianit Maraj, Shpat Berzati · 2018
In the past, WLAN planning was coverage driven to ensure that the signal quality is satisfied in all covered areas. As the number of users with more high-throughput applications, supported by sophisticated mobile computing devices continues to grow rapidly on the one hand and on the other hand the new high-speed IEEE802.11 based WLANs continue to have a significant wireless communication market spread, it has been recognized that capacity is equally important as coverage for the WLAN planning. In this paper WLANs capacity based planning and performance evaluation focusing on the impact of the applications throughput requirements, high-speed IEEE802.11 WLAN standards and user terminal capabilities are discussed. Performance evaluation is carried out by means of measurements, using IEEE 802.11ac and IEEE 802.11n standards.