IEEE 802.11ac MU-MIMO Wireless LAN cells with legacy clients

We provide an empirical evaluation of an IEEE 802.11ac Wireless LocalArea Network (WLAN) cell with Multiple User Multiple Input MultipleOutput (MU-MIMO) technology. We conducted our experiments on a testbed comprising consumer equipment under different office scenarios using 40MHz and 80MHz channels. This is the first performance study of MU-MIMO with 802.11ac in an operational scenario using a commercial access point. We find that, for clients that do not support MU-MIMO,operating in a cell that has MU-MIMO enabled may result in reduced performance.

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Abu-Tair , M & Bhatti , S N 2017 , IEEE 802.11ac MU-MIMO Wireless LAN cells with legacy clients . in 2017 IEEE 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , AINA 2017 - 31st IEEE Intl. Conf. Advanced Information Networking and Applications , Taipei , Taiwan , 27/03/17 .

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2017 IEEE 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)

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© 2017, IEEE. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at ieeexplore.ieee.org /

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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10569