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Abstract

With the increase in multimedia content and gaming the bandwidth used by a houshold has increased considerably. With HD video and gaming using up to 25Mbps per host, and with services like cloud gaming demanding of high network performance with a tolerance of delay is ranging from 300ms to 25ms. Because of these requirements there is a need for high bandwith, high performace wirelss router systems for the home network. WiFi6, also known as 802.11ax, is the newest implemented IEEE 802.11 standard wireless network protocol in the market. Its maximum link speed is 9608Mbit/s. Because WiFi6 has MU-MIMO (Multi-User, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) technology, higher bandwidth channels, and shows much better performance. In our test scenario, we will use ns-3 simulate a geographic region covered by WiFi6 with several game users and other stream users who share the same network to see how throughput and latency is affected. Depending on the type of games, the tolerance of delay is ranging from 300ms to 25ms. Some other aspects that.

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