Significant improvements in the quality and reliability of indoor WLAN connections are claimed for devices with MIMO technology using the recently developed standard 802.11n, which allows users to achieve theoretically up to 300-600 Mbps on a single transmission. This paper presents an analysis of a commercial 802.11n MIMO 2x3 dual band (2.4 & 5 GHz) system focusing on the operational throughput performance over an indoor environment with Line of Sight and Non Line of Sight scenarios. Each scenario evaluates the performance of a MIMO system at 5 different locations for 20 MHz and 40 MHz bandwidth configurations. An additional experimental investigation on the throughput is described for Antenna Diversity (SISO, MISO, SIMO and MIMO) on scenarios operating at 5GHz and transmitting within a 20 MHz bandwidth. Results from this study show that at a range of 10m the throughput performance for channel bonding transmission (using 40 MHz bandwidth) for 2.4 GHz and 5GHz, was able to achieve the optimal values established by the standard 802.11n, that is 296 Mbps for Line of sight scenarios, as well as 250 Mbps for Non Line of Sight.
4th Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (MIC-CPE 2011)
Congress
2011 Global Congress on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (GC-CPE 2011), 4-6 February 2011, Amman, Jordan
Pages
16-19
Topics
Microwave Engineering Smart Antennas
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{55CPE2011,
title={Experimental Throughput Analysis for MIMO 802.11n Systems over LOS and NLOS Indoor Scenarios},
author={Yousef Dama, and Raed Abd-Alhameed, and Fernando Salazar-Quiñonez, and Dawei Zhou, and Stephen Jones, and Peter Excell},
booktitle={2011 Global Congress on Communications, Propagation, and Electronics (GC-CPE 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={16-19},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
