Wireless Local Area Networks: Simulation and Analysis

摘要

This thesis presents two separate simulations. In the first, a realistic physicalmodel of a wireless local area network is developed. In this simulation, the multi-path interference at the reception point is investigated. The results of this physics-based simulation are used to assess an important assumption in the second simulation. In the second simulation, we examine the reliability of the wireless standard for the medium access control (MAC) layer, using CACI COMNET ffi network simulation software. This standard was published in 1997, by the IEEE's working group 802.11 and, in this thesis, is tested and analyzed under different network loads. One major result is that the optimum load for a five working stations wireless LAN, is from 80 to 200 packets per second. Below that load range the channel utilization is small and above that the network is overloaded.