Performance Evaluation as a Function of Position of 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11ac

Abstract

Wireless Local-area Networks were first introduced in 1997 with IEEE 802.11. The IEEE 802.11 protocol provided wireless link speeds of 2 Mbps. As time went on and bandwidth increased so did the requirements of the link speeds in wireless local-area networks. One of the latest implementations of the IEEE 802.11 protocol comes in the IEEE 802.11ac for a 5GHz radio signal and has link speeds up to 6933 Mbps. The 5GHz signal has higher bandwidth capabilities than its 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.11n sibling but at the cost of a shorter range. In this report, we will explore the performance of the IEEE 802.11ac 5GHz signal as a function of position using the Network Simulator 3 environment. The performance metric will be the best position relative to channel width and active spatial streams. The final results will then be applied to form a general template on how to set up a wireless local-area network.

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