The study of radio coverage and service quality of a Campus-Wide Wireless Network [articol]

Abstract

The appearance and development of mobile equipment led to a growth in the usage of Wi-Fi networks. At present, in order to access the Internet, the most used networks are the ones based on the IEEE 802.11 standard. These networks were conceived to service a limited number of customers with a symmetric traffic for uplink and downlink and concurrently with a limited coverage area dependent by the access point (AP) radio transmission power. The herein paper describes the tools and the steps followed to increase the radio coverage and to improve the quality of the services provided by a campus network made of 200 interior and exterior Wi-Fi hot-spots managed by one Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess dedicated controller.