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Benchmarking Methodology for Wireless LAN
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• Tom Alexander Scott Bradner

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overview

• this presentation is principals not details
• extension of basic BMWG testing to 802.11 devices
  (APs clients)
• throughput, latency/timing capacity
• link layer only (not radio BER-like testing)
• specify test methodologies not equipment
• (nit - ieee802.11 better name than WLAN)

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Test Setups

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Basic ID Organization

• tester description test setup
• configuration parameters
• test conditions
• interpreting and reporting test results
• tests
• throughput-related tests
• latency-related tests
• capacity-related tests

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Layer 9

• Im not asking (at this time) to make this a BMWG
  work item
• IEEE has a group working on testing
• this work could be
• all IEEE
• all BMWG
• cooperative IEEE/BMWG work
• Tom talked to IEEE last week will next week
• Dorothy Stanley