Next Generation Wi-Fi Mesh for Indoor Residential Deployments
Lester Ho, Adrián García‐Rodríguez, Lorenzo Galati Giordano, David López‐Pérez · 2020
In this paper, we investigate the use of highly directional, hybrid antenna arrays in residential Wi-Fi mesh deployments to further improve their performance in challenging conditions where high wall losses are encountered. We also formulate a metric to quantify the quality of the Wi-Fi coverage, and present a deployment procedure to automatically select extender AP locations to maximise such metric. Using the proposed deployment procedure, the performance of highly directional, hybrid antenna arrays in residential Wi-Fi mesh deployments is evaluated through simulations. Compared with the benchmark of omni-directional antennas, we show that using the proposed array increases the areas achieving peak throughput by more than 3 times.