A Measurement Study of WLAN Link Recovery Using WDS in a Vehicular Environment

Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC 2012) 2012
Jānis Jansons, Ernests Pētersons, Nikolajs Bogdanovs

A major challenge of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) is the provision of high capacity wireless networking infrastructure to support vehicular communication. In order to understand the basic processes in such networking, in this paper, we provide the measurement results of TCP performance over IEEE802.11n wireless local area network (WLAN). We concentrate our evaluation on multi hop communications in vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) scenario with three wireless access points. The experiment results testify the possibility of using a wireless distribution system (WDS) to connect APs wirelessly extending the transmission range area of network architecture and the connectivity time of the data transmission. Analysing our results was found that handover is one of the main causes reducing the performance of wireless network.

Keywords
IEEE802.11n, vehicular networking, WDS, V2I
DOI
10.1109/BEC.2012.6376844
Hyperlink
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6376844

Jansons, J., Pētersons, E., Bogdanovs, N. A Measurement Study of WLAN Link Recovery Using WDS in a Vehicular Environment. In: Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC 2012), Estonia, Tallinn, 3-5 October, 2012. Piscataway: IEEE, 2012, pp.173-174. ISBN 978-1-4673-2772-5. ISSN 1736-3705. Available from: doi:10.1109/BEC.2012.6376844

Publication language
English (en)