%0 Conference Proceedings %T Ambient Interference Effects in Wi-Fi Networks %+ Department of Computer Science %+ Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab, HP Labs %A Mahanti, Aniket %A Carlsson, Niklas %A Williamson, Carey %A Arlitt, Martin %< avec comité de lecture %( Lecture Notes in Computer Science %B 9th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference (NETWORKING) %C Chennai, India %Y Mark Crovella; Laura Marie Feeney; Dan Rubenstein; S. V. Raghavan %I Springer %3 NETWORKING 2010 %V LNCS-6091 %P 160-173 %8 2010-05-11 %D 2010 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-12963-6_13 %K Wi-Fi %K Interference %K Spectrogram %K Duty Cycle %K Data %K Video %K Voice %Z Computer Science [cs]/Digital Libraries [cs.DL]Conference papers %X This paper presents a measurement study of interference from six common devices that use the same 2.4 GHz ISM band as the IEEE 802.11 protocol. Using both controlled experiments and production environment measurements, we quantify the impact of these devices on the performance of 802.11 Wi-Fi networks. In our controlled experiments, we characterize the interference properties of these devices, as well as measure and discuss implications of interference on data, video, and voice traffic. Finally, we use measurements from a campus network to understand the impact of interference on the operational performance of the network. Overall, we find that the campus network is exposed to a large variety of non-Wi-Fi devices, and that these devices can have a significant impact on the interference level in the network. %G English %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01056315/document %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01056315/file/main.pdf %L hal-01056315 %U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01056315 %~ IFIP-LNCS %~ IFIP %~ IFIP-LNCS-6091 %~ IFIP-TC %~ IFIP-TC6 %~ IFIP-NETWORKING %~ IFIP-2010