The Impact of Buffer Queue Interface Size to the 802.11 Ad Hoc Network Performances

Abstract

Radio technology for wireless local area network (WLAN) has been used widely as it is the most popular for internet access point both in houses and buildings. Technology development rapidly changes to improve connection speed from modulation techniques to application layer, such as buffering. Some buffering methods have been employed for application adaptation. Buffer management is able improving network performances. In order to measure how buffering influence the performance, this article examines buffer queue interface impact to 802.11 performance by using network simulator. The evaluation results show that the increment on buffer size from 10 packet to100 packet boosts packet delay and jitter about 121.96% and 17% subsequently. However, packet loss is reduced up to 59%.