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A wireless test bed for mobile 802.11 and beyond

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In this paper, we present our approach of establishing a wireless test bed as a part of our collaborations with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for studying the performance of current and upcoming wireless technologies in a mobile railroad environment. The focus is on studying the impact of mobility on the wireless system throughput for moving trains with different velocities. We describe details of our test bed design including selection of the location, equipment as well as system topology and performance evaluations approach. We also present and discuss test results obtained from our test bed.

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IWCMC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
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DOI:10.1145/1143549
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  1. 802.16
  2. IEEE 802.11b performance
  3. mobility
  4. test bed
  5. wireless
  6. wireless in railroads

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