| PhD Seminar

Name of the Speaker: Ms. Divya (EE17D005)
Guide: Dr. Venkatesh R
Online meeting link: https://meet.google.com/qgw-nqry-fmj
Date/Time: 7th May 2024 (Tuesday), 2:00 PM
Title: Provisioning IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Abstract

The IEEE 802.11 standards are constantly evolving due to the demand for higher speeds, better coverage, and guaranteed QoS. However, many factors heavily impact Wi-Fi performance, such as WLAN standards, radio capabilities, bandwidth, operating band, channel quality, interference, noise, rate adaptation, hardware, infrastructure, client type, and others. Therefore, it is crucial to understand Wi-Fi performance for effective planning and management of Wi-Fi deployment. Our work aims to study Wi-Fi performance under various scenarios through in-site measurements and develop a recommendation mechanism for real-time deployment that guarantees the desired quality of service. Our primary focus is on passive in-site experiments and measurements in Indian homes to evaluate Wi-Fi parameters at low-layer levels and comprehend their impact on performance in terms of coverage, throughput, speed, and channel utilization. This work creates a new dataset for WLAN network performance recorded from more than 15 Indian homes, performing thousands of experiments with various traffic protocols and application bandwidths in a clean and static environment. The dataset allows us to understand the performance of Wi-Fi at various layers and its effect on overall performance. The dataset also enables us to predict real-time expected throughput, retries, and coverage at Indian homes.