The increasing importance of wireless communications, involving electronic devices, has been worldly recognized. Performance is a crucial issue, leading to more reliable and efficient communications. Security is also critically important. New laboratory experiments were performed about several performance aspects of Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11n Open 5 GHz links. Our study contributes to the performance evaluation of this technology, using available equipments (HP V-M200 access points and Linksys WPC600N adapters). New detailed results are presented and discussed, namely at OSI level 4, from TCP and UDP measurements. TCP throughput is measured versus TCP packet length. Jitter and percentage datagram loss are measured versus UDP datagram size. Data comparisons are made for point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and four-node point-to-multipoint links. Conclusions are drawn about performance of the links. © 2018 IEEE World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Wireless communications by microwaves are increasingly important, e.g. Wi-Fi. Performance is a crucial issue, improving reliability and efficiency in communications. Security is also most important. Laboratory performance measurements are presented for Wi-Fi 5 GHz IEEE 802.11n WPA2 links. Our study contributes to performance evaluation of this technology under WPA2 encryption, using available equipments (HP V-M200 access points and Linksys WPC600N adapters). New results are given, namely for OSI level 4, from TCP and UDP experiments. TCP throughput is measured versus TCP packet length. Jitter and percentage datagram loss are measured versus UDP datagram size. Results are compared for point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and four-node point-to-multipoint links. Comparisons are also made to corresponding data obtained for Open links. Conclusions are drawn about performance of the links. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte. Ltd. 2019

Wireless communications by microwaves are increasingly important, e.g. Wi-Fi. Performance is a crucial issue, improving reliability and efficiency in communications. Security is also most important. Laboratory performance measurements are presented for Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11a WEP links. Our study contributes to performance evaluation of this technology under WEP encryption, using available equipments (HP V-M200 access points and Linksys WPC600N adapters). New results are given, namely for OSI level 4, from TCP and UDP experiments. TCP throughput is measured versus TCP packet size. Jitter and percentage datagram loss are measured versus UDP datagram size. Results are compared for point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and four-node point-to-multipoint links. Comparisons are also made to corresponding data obtained for Open links. Conclusions are drawn about the comparative performance of the links. © 2019 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd