User capacity based planning tool for Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks

Sebastião, Pedro; Velez, Fernando; Tomé, Ricardo; Costa, Rui; Robalo, Daniel; Grilo, António; Rodrigues, António; Cercas, Francisco

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A simple wireless planning tool (WPT) is proposed, which facilitates the design and implementation of wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), and worldwide microwave access (WiMAX) networks in indoor and outdoor environments. The tool gives to professional planners practical and useful information through quick procedures as the output is the number and position of the access points (APs), or an estimation of the total cost of implementation, based on data provided by different equipment manufacturers. It uses innovative algorithms for computing the best position of each AP. Carrier-to-noise and carrier-tointerference issues are discussed in detail, and a practical deployment of a single WiMAX cell in Covilhã is presented. There is a need of using sectorial antennas to guarantee an adequate coverage and interference mitigation.

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User capacity Planning tool Wi-Fi WiMAX networks

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/15013

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Pedro Sebastião, Fernando J. Velez, Ricardo Tomé, Rui Costa, Daniel Robalo, António Grilo, António Rodrigues and Francisco Cercas, “User capacity based planning tool for Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks,” in Proc. of the First WEIRD Workshop on WiMAX, Wireless and Mobility – held in conjunction with WWIC 2007 – 5th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, Coimbra, Portugal, May 2007.