Optimizing and Testing WLANs

Proven Techniques for Maximum Performance

By: Tom Alexander

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Optimizing and Testing WLANs explores proven techniques for maximizing the coverage area and performance of wireless networks. The author's insider position on the IEEE committee developing standards for WLAN testing ensures timeliness and technical integrity of the material. The book includes coverage of newer multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) wireless networks. The techniques provided will allow engineers to help maintain continuous wireless connectivity to laptops and other mobile devices.

Optimizing and Testing WLANs is the first book to address the need to test WLANs (Wireless Local Area Networks) for proper performance and to optimize their operation as they become increasingly common. It covers test equipment and methods for the RF (wireless) and physical layers of WLAN, protocols, the application layer, and manufacturing testing. The emphasis throughout is on underlying engineering principles along with modern metrics and methodologies, ensuring this book gives both a solid theoretical background along with field-proven techniques and applications. A particularly engaging chapter deals with manufacturing test that describes some of the different manufacturing test setups and equipment. A concise introduction to deployment testing of "hotspots" and WLANs in enterprises is also provided.

This text will be of interest to RF wireless engineers and designers, networking engineers, IT professionals and managers, and graduate students.

*Gives proven techniques for maximizing the coverage area and performance of wireless networks
*Author's insider position on the IEEE committee developing standards for WLAN testing ensures timeliness and technical integrity of the material
*Includes coverage of newer multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) wireless networks

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
IEEE 802.11 WLAN Systems	p. 1
IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks	p. 1
WLAN Standards Today	p. 3
Inside WLAN Devices	p. 13
The RF Layer	p. 19
Metrology, Test Instruments, and Processes	p. 27
Metrology: the Science of Measurement	p. 27
The Nomenclature of Measurement	p. 28
Measurement Quality Factors	p. 31
The WLAN Engineer's Toolbox	p. 33
Test Setups and Test Processes	p. 37
Repeatability	p. 48
WLAN Test Environments	p. 55
Wired vs. Wireless	p. 55
Types of Environments	p. 56
Outdoor and Indoor OTA	p. 59
Chambered OTA Testing	p. 64
Conducted Test Setups	p. 69
Repeatability	p. 72
Physical Layer Measurements	p. 75
Types of PHY Layer Measurements	p. 75
Transmitter Tests	p. 77
Receiver Tests	p. 90
Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing	p. 94
System Performance Tests	p. 99
Getting the DUT to Respond	p. 105
Protocol Testing	p. 109
An Introduction to Protocol Testing	p. 109
Conformance and Functional Testing	p. 111
Interoperability Testing	p. 117
Performance Testing	p. 121
Standardized Benchmark Testing	p. 133
Application-Level Measurements	p. 137
System-Level Measurements	p. 137
Application Traffic Mixes	p. 146
VoIP Testing	p. 150
Video and Multimedia	p. 158
Relevance and Repeatability	p. 162
WLAN Manufacturing Test	p. 165
The WLAN Manufacturing Flow	p. 165
Manufacturing Test Setups	p. 171
Radio Calibration	p. 175
Programming	p. 176
Functional and System Testing	p. 177
Failure Patterns	p. 179
Installation Test	p. 181
Enterprise WLANs	p. 181
Hot-spots	p. 188
The Site Survey	p. 190
Propagation Analysis and Prediction	p. 196
Maintenance and Monitoring	p. 202
Testing MIMO Systems	p. 207
What is MIMO?	p. 207
The IEEE 802.11n PHY	p. 219
A New PLCP/MAC Layer	p. 225
The MIMO Testing Challenge	p. 231
Channel Emulation	p. 233
Testing 802.11n MIMO Devices	p. 237
A Standards Guide	p. 241
FCC Part 15	p. 241
IEEE 802.11	p. 242
Wi-Fi Alliance	p. 243
CTIA	p. 243
IETF BMWG	p. 244
Selected Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 249
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