Jarid Warren (jaridw@sfu.ca), Vani Choubey (vchoubey@sfu.ca) and Phyo Pyae (Henry) Hein (hhein@sfu.ca)
As portable internet devices (PID) have evolved in the past couple of years, more emphasis has been placed on internet services to provide: video and audio streaming, the world wide web, file transfer, in addition to Voice of IP (VoIP) as the availability and price from Internet Service Providers (ISP) improve and decline respectively. Among the protocols to leverage these technologies are Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Real-Time Protocol (RTP). These protocols are often used to implement applications that are accessed primarily through Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) hotspots in the home, on colleges campuses in addition to most public businesses. We aim to analyze the performance of these applications by comparing the first widely spread version of WiFi, 802.11b, and the most recent iteration available through Riverbed Modeler: 802.11n. A detailed comparison will be done by observing the throughput and delay using Riverbed Modeler Simulator at various distances from the Local Area Network (LAN) base station. In the end, our goal is to use this comparison to demonstrate the advancements made in the past decade of public LANs.
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