%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Protocol Heterogeneity Issues of Incremental High-Density Wi-Fi Deployment
%+ Department of Computer Science Electrical Engineering [Kansas City]
%+ Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
%A Gebre-Amlak, Haymanot
%A Islam, Md, Tajul
%A Cummins, Daniel
%A Mansoori, Mohammed, Al
%A Choi, Baek-Young
%Z Part 3: Network Deployment
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communication (WWIC)
%C Boston, MA, United States
%Y Kaushik Roy Chowdhury
%Y Marco Di Felice
%Y Ibrahim Matta
%Y Bo Sheng
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
%V LNCS-10866
%P 159-170
%8 2018-06-18
%D 2018
%R 10.1007/978-3-030-02931-9_13
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]Conference papers
%X Going beyond the traditional coverage-oriented Wi-Fi network design, the recent Wi-Fi networks are designed for high traffic demand with high density deployments. A university campus environment is particularly unique in that a large number of users with multiple heterogeneous devices demand high capacity and performance from a wireless network over a wide geographical area. From a network management perspective, not only should the network support heterogeneous Wi-Fi protocols and devices, but high-density access points (APs) are needed to handle the high traffic demands. To meet the rising demands Wi-Fi AP upgrades are deployed incrementally over an extended period to cover the vast area found in a campus setting, which is different from a building-level Wi-Fi network.In this paper, we present a measurement study to bring forth wireless network management issues faced during incremental Wi-Fi deployment on a university campus network. We discuss various design considerations given to incremental deployments of Wi-Fi 802.11 (ac) including replacing older Wi-Fi versions, and addressing compatibility, data rate, coverage, and performance concerns. In addition, we perform pre-and-post upgrade evaluations using different network performance analysis tools. This study will shed light on heterogeneous large-scale Wi-Fi network management issues, as these will become applicable with the increasing prevalence of large metro area wireless networks.
%G English
%Z TC 6
%Z WG 6.2
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-02269714/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-02269714/file/470666_1_En_13_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-02269714
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-02269714
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