The Influence of Interference Networks in QoS Parameters in a WLAN 802.11g Environment
Jasmine Araújo, Josiane Rodrigues, Simone Fraiha, Felipe Lamarão, Nandamudi Vijaykumar, Gervásio Cavalcante and Renato Francês
International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2007)
San Diego, California (USA), July 16-18, 2007
SPECTS_Summary
In spite of the significant increase of the use ofWireless Local Area Network (WLAN) experienced in the last years, design aspects and capacity planning of the network are still systematically neglected during the network implementation. For instance, to determine the location of the access point (AP), important factors of the environment are not considered in the project. These factors become more important when several APs are installed, sometimes without a frequency planning, to cover the same building. Faults such as these can cause interference among the cells generated by each AP. Therefore, the network will not obtain the QoS patterns required for each service. This paper proposes a strategy to determine how much a given network can affect the QoS parameters of another, by interference. In order to achieve this, a measurement campaign was carried out in two stages: firstly with a single AP and later with two APs separated by a distance less than three meters, using the same channel. After the measurement, an analysis of the results and a set of inferences were made by using Bayesian Networks, whose inputs were the experimental data, i.e. QoS metrics such as: throughput, delay, jitter, packet loss, PMOS and physical metrics like power and distance.