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Determination of the Range of the Guaranteed Radio Communication in Wireless Telecommunication Networks of IEEE 802.11 Standard
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UDC 621.391 + 621.37
Determination of the Range of the Guaranteed Radio
Communication in Wireless Telecommunication Networks
of IEEE 802.11 Standard with the Use of Ping Program
Irina A. Gudkova* , Oksana N. Romashkova† , Vyacheslav E. Samoylov‡
*
Department of Applied Probability and Informatics
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
6 Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
†
Department of Applied Informatics
Moscow City University (MCU)
4/1, 2nd Selskokhozyajstvennyj passage, Moscow, 129226
‡
Department of Automatic Equipment, Telemechanics and communication on railway
transport
Russian University of transport (MIIT)
9/9, Obraztsova str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 127994
Email: gudkova_ia@rudn.university, ox-rom@yandex.ru, samoilov.1992@list.ru
The article discusses the data transmission quality in wireless telecommunication networks
developed according to IEEE 802.11 standard, which are important for design, installation and
further operation of the networks. In particular, attention is paid to determining the range
of guaranteed radio communication and the probability of packet loss. It is proposed to use
the ping program as a method of determining the range of guaranteed radio communication
and the probability of packet loss for IEEE 802.11 standard routers. The program allows to
approximate the conditions of data transmission to real conditions, and, working for a long
period of time, allows to determine the probability of packet loss. One of the advantages of
the method proposed in the article is its availability in use, as no special equipment is required.
In addition, the article presents the results of comparison of the quality of data transmission
evaluation obtained by the proposed method with the data of technical documentation for
equipment. This fact confirms the adequacy and accuracy of the proposed method. During
the testing of the equipment, information about the number of sent, received and lost packets
in the radio channel under study will be obtained, in addition, the average value of the delay
in the transmission of data over the channel will be determined. The scope of application
of the considered method for determining the range of guaranteed radio communication in
wireless telecommunication networks of IEEE 802.11 standard is also proposed. An example
of using the method is building a network coverage map or creating a database with the
technical characteristics necessary for the design of local telecommunication networks with
wireless access.
Key words and phrases: the range of guaranteed radio communication, wireless telecom-
munication networks, the probability of losing packets.
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In: K. E. Samouylov, L. A. Sevastianov, D. S. Kulyabov (eds.): Selected Papers of the VIII Conference
“Information and Telecommunication Technologies and Mathematical Modeling of High-Tech Systems”,
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1. Introduction
It is often necessary to test the technique to determine the quality of network access
services at a distance from the access point at the process of designing and operating
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN networks [1–5]. Testing of a wireless router can be either
preliminary (on a laboratory stand) or current (during network operation) [4–9]. In both
cases the most simple and quick solution is to use the built-in Windows ping utility.
2. The concept of guaranteed radio communication area for modern
telecommunication networks with wireless access IEEE 802.11 standard
In the process of designing a new local telecommunication network with wireless
access, an important issue is the exact location of wireless access points, since the quality
of services provided by the network and the speed of the handler process depends on
the fact whether the location of the wi-fi point is chosen correctly. This question is
particularly relevant in the case of building a local wireless telecommunications network
with a given speech transmission quality [6, 10–17]. In order to find the answer to
these questions it is necessary to know the exact value of the range of the guaranteed
radiocommunication of the equipment.
First of all, it is necessary to introduce the concept of guaranteed radio communication
for IEEE 802.11 standard modern telecommunications networks with wireless access. It
is well known, that multitraffic is passed in modern IP networks, which is usually "split"
for video traffic, voice traffic and data transmission. Therefore, the area of guaranteed
radio communication is limited to a line, each point of which is far away from the
base station, and at the same time it meets the minimum required transmission quality
requirements for all types of traffic. The requirements for the quality of transmission
over communication channels for each type of traffic have their own characteristics.
Accordingly, the area of guaranteed radio communication is limited to the most stringent
requirements applicable to one of the three types of traffic. The most sensitive of these
types of traffic is voice traffic, so we use the requirements for speech transmission over
IP networks as a requirement to limit the area of guaranteed radio communication.
There are two methods, most common for assessing the quality of speech transmission
in modern packet telecommunication networks: the method of subjective assessment
of the quality of speech transmission MOS (Mean Opinion Score) and E-model. We
would like to draw attention to the method of objective assessment of speech quality –
E-model. This method is governed by ITU-t G. 107 recommendation. The E-model is a
common model for assessing the quality of speech transmission in networks. The main
task of the method is to find the values of the parameter called R-factor. R-factor is
an integral index of speech transmission, calculated by the specified parameters of the
speech path, taking into account its configuration [21].
The method of calculation of the R-factor takes into account the following features
of speech:
1. the appearance of speech packets loss in the transmission of speech in the network
with packet switching, due to the increase in the transmission delay time;
2. use of codecs of different types in the network. The use of low-speed codecs, such
as G723, G729, etc., can result in packet loss and transmission delays. The use
of low-speed codecs allows you to increase the bandwidth of the network, but
it significantly reduces the quality of the voice signal compared to the case of
high-speed codecs, such as G. 711, G. 726-32, etc.
3. speech transmission between two subscribers or group call support;
4. the use of voice activity detectors VAD (Voice Activity Detection) in the network,
which allows to detect voice activity when a signal occurs and separate speech from
noise [21].
These features have a different effect on the signal delay time, which creates inconve-
nience due to overlapping conversations and the occurrence of echo. The effect of delay
becomes critical when its value in one transmission direction exceeds 250 ms [21].
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When calculating the R-factor, it is possible to localize the following causes and
places of delays in the formation, transmission and processing of speech packets in the
conversation: in the codec (encoder or decoder), in the receive or transmit buffer, in the
summator, in the adaptation module, in the IP network, in the switch [21]. Most of the
coefficients used in the calculation are determined by tables, because they depend on the
type of codec used or the type of technology used. However, you cannot use the table
to determine the probability of packet loss in a speech path because this characteristic
depends only on the properties of the communication channel. To sum it all up, it can
be said that the boundary of guaranteed radio communication area will vary depending
on the change in the probability of packets loss at different points.
3. Determination of the range of the guaranteed radio communication
It is proposed to use the following scheme of testing equipment to determine the
range of the guaranteed radiocommunication using the ping program (see Fig. 1). You
need to take two laptops (one used as a server, the other as a client) and a router
supporting one of the IEEE 802.11 b/g/n wireless transmission standards.
Figure 1. Connection diagram of equipment for testing
The router configuring and a wireless LAN creating are done through the web
interface of the router. In order to do this, you need to connect the router to the first
laptop using a cable with a connector of standard RJ 45, called “twisted pair”, and then
connect to the IP address of the router by default using a browser. In our case, Wi-Fi
router Asus Rt-N12 with a standard IP address by default-192.168.1.1 is used. Then
it is necessary to connect the second laptop to the created local network. In order to
do this, it is required to check the operation of the PC2 wi-fi adapter, select the local
wireless network created by the router, enter the appropriate username and password.
The exchange of packages is checked after connecting the laptop to the network.
Afterwards, it is necessary to customize your ping on the first laptop: you should
open the Execute task window using the win+r shortcut, enter the cmd command,
and then open the command window. It is necessary to enter a command on the
opened command window to start the ping utility. Ping program has several different
parameters that affect the principle of its operation. In order to test wireless routers,
you need to bring the transmission conditions closer to the real ones. Therefore,
Ethernet packets with data must be sent to the router. Accordingly, the ping utility
must constantly form a packet size of 1 kb. In our case, this command is as follows:
ping [router ip address] –l 1000 –t. With this command we create a packet size
of 1000 bytes that will be transmitted from PC1 to PC2 and back again until we enter
the command Ctrl+C.
The program runs for a long period of time, sufficient to fully estimate the probability
of losing packets. After that, the program is stopped by a certain combination of keys.
In our case, the program has a sufficient duration of 20 minutes. In other words, the
program must transfer 1000+ packets. At the end of the program work we will see
information about the number of the packets sent, received and lost, in addition, we will
know the average value of the delay in the transmission of data through the channel.
After the end of the program and the probability of loss of packets for this point, the
distance between the router and the receiving laptop increases. Testing is repeated
for multiple points to obtain the average probability of packet loss. It is assumed to
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start with a distance of 5 m between PC1 and PC2 and increase by 5 m for a more
accurate result. In addition, a fundamental condition for this type of testing is to
perform measurements in conditions of direct radio visibility, since various obstacles
between PC1 and PC2 can lead to less accurate values.
4. The results of a wireless LAN standard IEEE 802.11 testing
The following results were obtained during the testing of the section of the experi-
mental telecommunications network with wireless access of IEEE 802.11 standard (see
Tab. 1).
Table 1
The results of a wireless LAN standard IEEE 802.11 testing
The distance be- The number of The number of The average la-
tween PC1 and packets sent packets lost tency of transfer
PC2, m and acceptance,
ms
5 1168 19 330
10 1219 12 323
15 1306 3 338
20 1167 23 330
25 1179 3 334
30 1203 7 339
Measurements were carried out at 6 different points at a distance between PC1 and
PC2 – 5 m, 10 m, 15 m, 20 m, 25 m and 30 m. In the following, as an example, we
present the result of one point processing using the ping program (see Fig. 2). Figure 2
shows the statistics that are generated after the test packets are transmitted. You can
see the number of packets sent, the number of packets received, the number of packets
lost, the minimum time for receiving and transmitting one test packet, the maximum
time for receiving and transmitting one test packet, and, accordingly, the average time
for one test packet receiving and transmitting.
Figure 2. Test results at one point
In order to generate the guaranteed radiocommunication segment parameter value
let’s carry out the averages calculation: the average latency of transfer and acceptance
transmission for 6 experiments — 332,33 ms; the average number of packets sent – 1207
PCs; the average number of packets lost for 6 experiments — 11; the percentage of
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losses for 6 experiments is 0.91%.You should pay attention to the fact that the average
value of the transmission delay in one direction is 165 ms. Estimation the probability
of packet loss in the range of 1-3% and the average value of the transmission delay in
one direction within 250 ms, indicates a good quality of speech transmission over the
channel.
5. The scope of application of the proposed method
Considering the fact that the proposed method is simple and requires no special
equipment, there are other areas of potential use.
1. The use of the proposed method makes it possible to obtain not only a zone of guar-
anteed radio communication for a particular equipment, but also the correspondence
of the probability of packet loss on distance.
2. Testing a large amount of equipment for wireless access will allow you to create
a database with the technical characteristics required for the design of local
telecommunications networks with Wi-Fi access and a given speech transmission
quality [1–5].
3. The use of additional software will provide additional information about the network,
for example the use of such software as Acrylic Wi-Fi Home allows you to receive
the level of received signal in dB, which allows you to build a sheet of the real radio
network coverage, which is largely different from the calculated radio coverage
obtained by statistical design methods [18].
4. Using this method in real conditions allows to get a picture of real radio coverage
based not on the level of transmitted signal, but on the quality of services, which
in turn carries more information load, because, for example, the construction of
networks with a specified quality of speech transmission requires the following –
the probability of packet loss does not exceed a certain value at each point of the
network [6–8, 15–20].
In addition, the use of laptops as a server and client brings test conditions closer to the
real conditions in which computers or smartphones usually act as network subscribers.
6. Conclusions
Summing it all up, it is necessary to mention that the method proposed in the article
is effective and adequate. The comparison of technical parameters of the router given
in technical documentation with the parameters received in the conditions of testing
can serve as the certificate of its adequacy. According to the data stated in the router
technical documentation, under the conditions of direct radio visibility, wi-fi router Asus
Rt-N12 provides data transmission to a distance of 30 m with a probability of packet loss
of 1-3%. As shown earlier at a distance of 30 m between PC1 and PC2, the probability
of packet loss does not exceed 1%. In turn, the effectiveness of the method is confirmed
by its simplicity, reliability and a wide range of possible applications.
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