Abstract:
IEEE802.11n 5GHz was the latest Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
standard for commercial and home use. It was claimed by the vendor that the
performance of this new standard was much better than the previous WLAN standard
which were 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n that use 2.4GHz frequency
spectrum. The theoretical maximum throughput claimed to be achieved by
IEEE802.11n 5GHz was up to 600Mbps which was almost 11 times the throughput
of standard 802.11g. This research was conducted to study its performance with
some modified topology and network environment that may be used in real life
application. It was set up in repeater mode to extend the coverage of the originating
signal. The repeater mode was the topology used for this research. It will be used to
study the topology’s performance since in real life networking, repeater was one of
the alternatives and solution for extending network coverage when cabling seems to
be not a good choice. Furthermore, the network layer used during the study was IPv6
instead of standard IPv4 end-to-end. IPv6 was chosen because of its future potential
in network addressing implementation. It can provide up to 340 decillion Internet
Protocol (IP) addresses compared to 4.3 billion by IPv4. The test bed of the research
was 802.11n 5GHz using repeater mode on IPv6 environment. The study will benefit
to wireless network community for future reference and further implementation.
