Impact of Beamforming on the Average Throughput of 802.11ac in Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN).

Nwafor Oluch Christiana, NNebe Scholarstica Ukamaka

Abstract


The increasing density of WLAN access points in most office environments has started to reveal the negative effects and shortcomings of the original IEEE 802.11 standards. As a result of this impact, IEEE WLANs are unable to exploit all their potential. However, intelligent radio resource management (RRM) policies could be applied to minimize the harmful effects of interference and an uneven load distribution. This paper explores ways of understanding the performance issues that are endemic to IEEE 802.11ac, as well as profer ways of minimizing these negative effects by means of radio resource management. In this research, experiments were carried out to determine the impact of beamforming on the average throughput of IEEE 802.11ac in an office environment. Results showed that beamforming provides significant gain in average throughput of IEEE 802.11ac at distances close to the router.


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802.11ac, beamforming, MIMO

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v24.1.2521

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