Research Article
IEEE 802.11 Traffic Measurement and Analysis
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.18-6-2016.2264315, author={Shaoen Wu and Sudad Abed and Qing Yang and Honggang Wang}, title={IEEE 802.11 Traffic Measurement and Analysis}, proceedings={9th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={MOBIMEDIA}, year={2016}, month={12}, keywords={ieee 80211 measurement analysis}, doi={10.4108/eai.18-6-2016.2264315} }- Shaoen Wu
Sudad Abed
Qing Yang
Honggang Wang
Year: 2016
IEEE 802.11 Traffic Measurement and Analysis
MOBIMEDIA
ACM
DOI: 10.4108/eai.18-6-2016.2264315
Abstract
Despite extensive measurement based study of IEEE 802.11 wireless channels, rare work has performed to investigate the use of IEEE 802.11 protocol variants in practice and its traf- fics in various environments. This paper presents a traffic analysis on two different IEEE 802.11 networks under oper- ation: one is inside a university campus and the other is out of the campus. The investigation focuses are on protocol ef- ficiency, frame delivery, application types and IEEE 802.11 variants (i.e. a/b/g/n/ac/ad). With more than 10 million frames collected, the results show: (1) the IEEE 802.11 pro- tocol could be more efficiency with a smaller retry limit, (2) various environments vary largely in traffic application types in that the users have various needs, and (3) users upgrades their devices quickly because the traffic dominates with lat- est IEEE 802.11 protocol variant. These observations will be valuable to future protocol design of IEEE 802.11 net- working.