IEEE 802.11ac WLAN Analysis in 160Mhz Channel

Abstract

In this paper, we measure WLAN 802.11ac performance using the 160MHz Channel size; for IPv4, IPv6, UDP, and TCP protocols. Tests are done for both client-server and peer-peer LANs. We measure Throughput, Round Trip Time (RTT), and CPU utilization. Results show that the client-server using UDP and IPv4 gave us the highest throughput results at 1124 Mb/s which was over 100 Mb/s higher than the result for IPv6. This is less than the theoretical value of 1700 Mbps which cannot be achieved. Results also show how much the client-server throughput is higher than peer-to-peer, IPv4 higher than IPv6, and UDP higher than TCP.