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Lab Objectives: Wireless Networks Lab 2 - Wi-Fi Protocols

This document describes a lab assignment to simulate and compare the performance of different Wi-Fi protocols using OPNET. Students are instructed to model 4 scenarios using different combinations of 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11a protocols at access points and mobile nodes. They are to measure delay and throughput and analyze the impact of mixing protocols on performance. The goal is to understand how different Wi-Fi protocols affect network statistics and identify solutions to interference problems.

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Lab Objectives: Wireless Networks Lab 2 - Wi-Fi Protocols

This document describes a lab assignment to simulate and compare the performance of different Wi-Fi protocols using OPNET. Students are instructed to model 4 scenarios using different combinations of 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11a protocols at access points and mobile nodes. They are to measure delay and throughput and analyze the impact of mixing protocols on performance. The goal is to understand how different Wi-Fi protocols affect network statistics and identify solutions to interference problems.

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Cairo University

Faculty of Engineering Spring 2017


Computer Engineering Department

Wireless Networks
Lab 2 – Wi-Fi Protocols

Lab objectives
 Know the difference between Wi-Fi (802.11) protocols
 Evaluate the performance of Wi-Fi protocols using OPNET simulator

Wi-Fi protocols
 802.11a:
o Operates in the 5.15GHz to 5.35GHz radio spectrum.
o Speed: Up to 54Mbps (actual throughput is closer to 22Mbps)
o Range: 50 feet
o Less prone to interference.
o More expensive.
o Because 802.11b and 802.11a use different radio technologies and
portions of the spectrum, they are incompatible with one another.
 802.11b:
o Operates in the 2.4GHz radio spectrum.
o Speed: Up to 11Mbps
o Range: 100 feet
o Prone to interference (it shares airspace with cell phones, Bluetooth,
security radios, and other devices).
o Least expensive wireless LAN specification.
 802.11g:
o Operates in the 2.4GHz radio spectrum.
o Speed: Up to 54Mbps
o Range: 100 feet
o Prone to interference (it shares airspace with cell phones, Bluetooth,
security radios, and other devices).
o More expensive than 802.11b

Lab exercise
You are required to simulate and compare between four scenarios as following
1- Scenario one [Full_G] using
a. one access point operating at (802.11g) and 54Mbps
b. 12 mobile nodes operating at (802.11g) and 54Mbps
2- Scenario two [Complex_G_B] using
a. one access point operating at (802.11g) and 54Mbps
b. 8 mobile nodes operating at (802.11g) and 54Mbps

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c. 4 mobile nodes operating at (802.11b) and 11Mbps
3- Scenario three [Complex_AP_G_B] using
a. one access point operating at (802.11g) and 54Mbps
b. one access point operating at (802.11b) and 11Mbps
c. 8 mobile nodes operating at (802.11g) and 54Mbps
d. 4 mobile nodes operating at (802.11b) and 11Mbps
4- Scenario four [Full_B] using
a. one access point operating at (802.11b) and 11Mbps
b. 12 mobile nodes operating at (802.11b) and 11Mbps
The comparison is based on following statistics,
1- Delay (sec)
2- Throughput (bits/sec)
It is required to state the effect of using different mixes of Wi-Fi protocols on both
access points (routers) and mobile nodes according to these statistics.

Lab directions
1- Make new project using office topology
2- Include “wirless_lan” and “wirless_lan_adv” libraries in the “Model Family”
3- From Topology open object-palette.
4- Select “wlan_ethernet_slip4_adv” mobile node to insert an access point (router)
in the map.
5- Select “wlan_station_adv” mobile node to insert 12 mobile nodes in the map and
align them in circular shape around the router.
6- To set the router specifications, Right-click on the access point, and select "Edit
Attributes” >> “wirless lan parameters” and set physical characteristics and data
rate according to the following table

Wi-Fi protocol Name Physical characteristics Data rate


802.11 a OFDM 54Mbps
802.11 b Direct Sequence 11Mbps
802.11 g Extended Rate 54Mbps
infrared Infrared 2Mbps
frequency hopping Frequency hopping 2 Mbps

7- To connect the mobile nodes to specific access points you need to set them to the
same BSS , by setting the attribute “BSS identifier” of both the access point and the
mobile node to the same Unique Identifier , as follows .

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8- Duplicate the scenario and change the specification of the access points and mobile
as listed above, you will need to add another access point for scenario 3.
9- To Observe statistics
» Right-click on an empty space on the scenario
» Select: Choose Individual DES Statistics >> Global Statistics >> wirless lan
then select (Delay and Throughput).
10- Configure and run each scenario for 10 minutes.
11- If you have any run errors , you can debug them using the error log as follows
>> From DES menu >> open DES log >> double click on the messages to show
them.

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12- View the results in compare mode, list them in a report and answer these questions.

Q1 : sort the senarios according to the delay from least delay to most delay, illustrate why .
Q2 : sort the senarios according to the Throughput from least to most, illustrate why .
Q3 : what the effect of adding some mobile nodes operating at 802.11b to a network that
has access point operating at 802.11b ?
Q4 : list a suggested solution to this effect .

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