Performance test of IEEE 802.11 ac wireless devices

Abstract

With the wireless technologies being widely used, it is for sure that all types of wireless networking will become more and more popular now and in the near future. Therefore, measurement-based performance evaluation of different wireless network standards and traffics is becoming very important. In this research paper, the wireless local area network performance differences between IEEE 802.11n and IEEE 802.11ac technologies of both IPv4 and IPv6 on two Windows 7 operating system computers which been implemented 802.11ac network devices is investigated. The results indicated that both IPv4 and IPv6 802.11ac throughput is higher than 802.11n, both ac and n IPv6 mode has lower jitter than IPv4's. The delay and drop rate metrics were also be measured.