Abstract
An experimental investigation of the influence of the fiber distribution of wireless LAN (WLAN) signals on
throughput performance is presented. Transmission using different medium-access-control mechanisms and IEEE 802.11b
and 802.11g physical layers is considered, and results are compared with those from the corresponding simulations in
a commercial event-driven network simulator (OPNET). Performance of the WLAN-over-fiber network in the presence of
multiple clients is also analyzed. This paper confirms that a fiber delay does not significantly affect the
performance obtained by fragmentation mechanism. Furthermore, when multiple antenna units are fed by a single access
point, it is demonstrated that the presence of hidden nodes can cause the performance of WLAN-over-fiber networks to
deteriorate. Finally, it is shown that the request-to-send/clear-to-send mechanism can be utilized to mitigate the
negative effects associated with the hidden node problem.
© 2007 IEEE
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