Title
Measurement of long-distance Wi-Fi connections: An empirical study
Abstract
Long-distance Wi-Fi technology has shown promise in several network applications that cannot utilize conventional technologies effectively. Although the network performance of Wi-Fi technology is affected by a number of environmental factors, there is a dearth of long-term, continuous, and systematic studies on the correlations between those factors and the technology's performance. In this study, we deployed a long-distance Wi-Fi testbed on our campus and conducted a one-year experiment. Comprehensive data analysis of the measurement results shows that rainfall is the major weather attribute that affects the network performance of long-distance Wi-Fi links. In addition, the performance is highly correlated to human activities in the immediate vicinity. The results also demonstrate it is possible to infer people's daily routines on campus by exploiting the long-term measurement data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICC.2014.6883685
ICC
Keywords
Field
DocType
network measurement,network performance,long-distance wi-fi,long-distance wi-fi connections,data analysis,testbed,long-distance wi-fi links,environmental factors,long-distance wi-fi technology,wireless lan,temperature measurement,wireless communication,humidity,wireless sensor networks
Network measurement,Computer science,Testbed,Computer network,Real-time computing,Wireless lan,Empirical research,Network performance
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
1
0.36
References 
Authors
13
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ching-Hsiang Chu110.36
You-Ming Chen210.36
Yu-Te Huang310.70
Roberto Carvalho421.07
Chiun-Chieh Hsu510.70
Ling-Jyh Chen675978.81