TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER TITLE
PAGE TAJUK PROJEK
ii PROJECT TITLE
iii REPORT VERIFICATION STATUS FORM
iv PENGISYTIHARAAN
v DECLARATION
vi PENGISYTIHARAAN PENYELIA
vii SUPERVISOR DECLARATION
viii PENGHARGAAN
ix ACKNOLEDGEMENT
x ABSTRAK
xi ABSTRACT
xiii TABLE OF CONTENTS
xiv LIST OF TABLES
xvii LIST OF FIGURES
xviii LIST OF TERMS
xix
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND
1 1.2
PROBLEM STATEMENT 2
1.3 OBJECTIVES
3 1.4
CONTRIBUTION 3
1.5 THESIS ORGANIZATION
4
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 INTRODUCTION
5 2.2
WIRELESS LAN 5
2.2.1 TECHNOLOGY
5 2.2.2
ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
7
2.3 WIRELESS MESH NETWORK
9 2.3.1
TECHNOLOGY 9
2.3.2 ARCHITECTURE AND
TOPOLOGY 10
2.4 ELECTROMAGNETIC
INTERFERENCES EMI 12
2.4.1 SOURCE OF CO-CHANNEL
INTERFERENCES CCI 12
2.4.2 SOURCE OF ADJACENT
CHANNEL INTERFERENCES ACI
12
2.4.3 CCI ACI in WLAN
13 2.4.4
CCI ACI in WMN 14
2.5 TRAFFIC FLOW IN WIRELESS
NETWORK 14
2.5.1 NON-STREAMING TRAFFIC
14 2.5.2
STREAMING TRAFFIC 14
2.6 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
PARAMETER 15
2.6.1 RECEIVED POWER, Pr
15 2.6.2
THROUGHPUT GOODPUT
17
2.7 SUMMARY
18
3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.0 INTRODUCTION
19 3.1
EXPERIMENTAL SETUP 19
3.1.1 MEASUREMENT TESTBED
19 3.1.2
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
20
3.1.3 FLASHING ROUTER
23 3.1.4
IP MAC CONFIGURATION
24
3.2 RSSI MEASUREMENT METHOD
25 3.3
THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENT METHOD
27
3.3.1 NON-STREAMING
PROTOCOLS 27
3.3.2 STREAMING PROTOCOLS
27 3.4
SUMMARY 27
4 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
4.1 INTRODUCTION
28 4.2
MEASURE AVERAGE RSSI 29
4.3 MEASURE NON-STREAMING
THROUGHPUT 33
4.4 MEASURE STREAMING
THROUGHPUT 40
4.5 SUMMARY
44
5 CONCLUSION and FUTURE WORK
45
REFERENCES 46
LIST OF TABLES
NUMBER TITLE
PAGE
Table 2.1 Transmission Power and Gain used in
Transmitter and Receiver 16
Table 3.1 Wireless equipment used in WMN and
WLAN network performance measurement. 21
Table 3.2 Laptop specification s used in WMN and
WLAN network performance measurement. 22
Table 3.3 IP and MAC Address Assignment
24
LIST OF FIGURES
NUMBER TITLE
PAGE
Figure 2.1 Infrastructure Wireless LAN Architecture
7 Figure 2.2
Ad-hoc WLAN architecture 8
Figure 2.3 Mesh Architecture
10 Figure 2.4
Mesh Topology 11
Figure 2.5 ACI Figure
13 Figure 3.1
Testbed Configuration 20
Figure 3.2 MAC Address Assignment
24 Figure 3.3
WMN Configuration 25
Figure 3.4 WLAN Configuration
26 Figure 4.1
RSSI for Router 1.3 29
Figure 4.2 RSSI for Router 1.4
30 Figure 4.3
RSSI for Router 1.5 31
Figure 4.4 RSSI for Router 1.6
32 Figure 4.5
Non Streaming Throughputs Router 1.3 33
Figure 4.6 Non Streaming Throughputs Router 1.4
35 Figure 4.7
Non Streaming Throughputs Router 1.5 37
Figure 4.8 Non Streaming Throughputs Router 1.6
38 Figure 4.9
Streaming Throughputs Router 1.3 40
Figure 4.10 Streaming Throughputs Router 1.4
41 Figure 4.11
Streaming Throughputs Router 1.5 42
Figure 4.12 Streaming Throughputs Router 1.6
43
LIST OF TERMS
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WMN Wireless Mesh Network
CCI Co-Channel Interferences
ACI Adjacent Channel Interferences
TCP Transmissions Control Protocol
UDP User Datagram Protocol
EMI Electromagnetic Interferences
AP Access Point
Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 Project Background
