Performance Evaluation of a Campus HotSpot Network in Baghdad

Abstract

Wi-Fi evolving towards increase throughput and reduce delay enables providing reliable and seamless internet in a public and private venue or what is addressed as hotspots. The widespread of internet paves the road for smart cities and E-government systems development. This includes the educational sector, where internet becomes an integral part of the educational process. Deploying wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) in university campuses helps to provide the students with knowledge and academic information. In this work, a site survey for a large scale WiFi network deployed in Baghdad University College of Arts campus is conducted in order to evaluate the network performance in terms of; coverage, interference, Quality of Services (QoS). The statistical results obtained from the walk test are used to overcome the main problems and suggest solution for performance enhancement.