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Authors:
José Pacheco de Carvalho
Cláudia Ribeiro Pacheco
Hugo Veiga
António Reis
Keywords: IEEE 802.11a, g Point-to-Point Links; WEP; WPA; Wireless Network Laboratory Performance.
Abstract:
The importance of wireless communications, involving electronic devices, has been growing. Performance is a crucial issue, leading to more reliable and efficient communications. Security is equally important. Laboratory measurements were performed on several performance aspects of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 a, g) WEP and WPA point-to-point links. Our study contributes to the performance evaluation of this technology, using available equipments (DAP-1522 access points from D-Link and WPC600N adapters from Linksys). New detailed results are presented and discussed, namely at OSI levels 4 and 7, from TCP, UDP and FTP experiments: TCP throughput, jitter, percentage datagram loss and FTP transfer rate. Comparisons are made to corresponding results obtained for, mainly, open links. Conclusions are drawn about the comparative performance of the links.
Pages: 191 to 196
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: November 18, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2163-9027
ISBN: 978-1-61208-231-8
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012