Experimental characterization of 802.11n link quality at high rates

Konstantinos Pelechrinis; Theodoros Salonidis; Henrik Lundgren; Nitin Vaidya

doi:10.1145/1860079.1860087

Experimental characterization of 802.11n link quality at high rates

Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Theodoros Salonidis, Henrik Lundgren, Nitin Vaidya

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

802.11n has made a quantum leap over legacy 802.11 systems by supporting extremely higher transmission rates at the physical layer. In this paper, we ask whether such high rates translate to high qual- ity links in a real deployment. Our experimental investigation in an indoor wireless testbed reveals that the highest transmission rates advertised by the 802.11n standard typically produce losses (or even outages) even in interference-free environments. Such losses become more acute and persist at high SNR values, even at low interference intensity. We find that these problems are partly due to bad configurations that do not allow exploitation of spatial di- versity, partly due to the wider 802.11n channels that expose these sensitive high rates to more interference. We show that these prob- lems can be alleviated using the 802.11n MAC layer enhancements jointly with packet size adaptation.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proc. of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH'10, Co-located with MobiCom'10 and 11th ACM Int. Symp. on MobiHoc'10
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	39-46
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781450301404
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1860079.1860087
State	Published - 2010
Event	5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH '10 - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: Sep 20 2010 → Sep 24 2010

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

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Other	5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH '10
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago, IL
Period	9/20/10 → 9/24/10

Keywords

802.11n
MIMO
Packet delivery ratio

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Software

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Pelechrinis, K., Salonidis, T., Lundgren, H., & Vaidya, N. (2010). Experimental characterization of 802.11n link quality at high rates. In Proc. of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH'10, Co-located with MobiCom'10 and 11th ACM Int. Symp. on MobiHoc'10 (pp. 39-46). (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1860079.1860087

Experimental characterization of 802.11n link quality at high rates. / Pelechrinis, Konstantinos; Salonidis, Theodoros; Lundgren, Henrik et al.
Proc. of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH'10, Co-located with MobiCom'10 and 11th ACM Int. Symp. on MobiHoc'10. Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. p. 39-46 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Pelechrinis, K, Salonidis, T, Lundgren, H & Vaidya, N 2010, Experimental characterization of 802.11n link quality at high rates. in Proc. of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH'10, Co-located with MobiCom'10 and 11th ACM Int. Symp. on MobiHoc'10. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 39-46, 5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH '10, Chicago, IL, United States, 9/20/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1860079.1860087

Pelechrinis K, Salonidis T, Lundgren H, Vaidya N. Experimental characterization of 802.11n link quality at high rates. In Proc. of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH'10, Co-located with MobiCom'10 and 11th ACM Int. Symp. on MobiHoc'10. Association for Computing Machinery. 2010. p. 39-46. (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM). doi: 10.1145/1860079.1860087

Pelechrinis, Konstantinos ; Salonidis, Theodoros ; Lundgren, Henrik et al. / Experimental characterization of 802.11n link quality at high rates. Proc. of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH'10, Co-located with MobiCom'10 and 11th ACM Int. Symp. on MobiHoc'10. Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. pp. 39-46 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM).

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