Low RSSI in WLANs: Impact on Application-Level Performance

M. Tauber; S. N. Bhatti

doi:10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504066

Low RSSI in WLANs: Impact on Application-Level Performance

M. Tauber, S. N. Bhatti

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

Widespread use of wireless LAN (WLAN) may soon cause an over-crowding problem in use of the ISM spectrum. One way in which this manifests itself is the low Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) at the WLAN stations, impacting performance. Meanwhile, the IEEE 802.11 standard is being evolved and extended, for example with new coding schemes and the 802.11n standard, which makes use of 5GHz and 2.4GHz. We report on measurements of the upper and lower bounds of performance with good and poor RSSI in 802.11g and 802.11n. We find that in operation under poor (low) RSSI, performance is indeed impacted. In some cases the impact is such that there may be little benefit in using the newer 802.11n over the mature 802.11g.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICNC 2013 - IEEE Intl. Conf. Computing, Networking and Communications
Pages	123-129
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2013.6504066
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2013

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