P. O. Umenne and Odhiambo Marcel O.
The Performance of an 802.11gWiFi Network Whilst Streaming Voice Content
993 - 999
2012
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International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14540
https://publications.waset.org/vol/69
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
A simple network model is developed in OPNET to
study the performance of the WiFi protocol. The model is simulated
in OPNET and performance factors such as load, throughput and delay
are analysed from the model. Four applications such as oracle, http, ftp
and voice are applied over the Wireless LAN network to determine the
throughput. The voice application utilises a considerable amount of
bandwidth of up to 5Mbps, as a result the 802.11g standard of the
WiFi protocol was chosen which can support a data rate of up to
54Mbps. Results indicate that when the load in the WiFi network is
increased the queuing delay on the pointtopoint links in the WiFi
network significantly reduces until it is comparable to that of WiMAX.
In conclusion, the queuing delay of the WiFi protocol for the network
model simulated was about 0.00001secs comparable to WiMAX
network values.
Open Science Index 69, 2012