Analysis of a local-area wireless network
Published 1 August 2000Open access
Diane Tang, Mary Baker
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A twelve-week trace of a building-wide local-area wireless network is examined to understand better how users take advantage of wireless networks, finding that users are divided into distinct location-based sub-communities, each with its own movement, activity, and usage characteristics.
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To understand better how users take advantage of wireless networks, we examine a twelve-week trace of a building-wide local-area wireless network. We analyze the network for overall user behavior (when and how intensively people use the network and how much they move around), overall network traffic and load characteristics (observed throughput and symmetry of incoming and outgoing traffic), and traffic characteristics from a user point of view (observed mix of applications and number of hosts connected to by users).
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