Experimental Throughput Evaluation of IEEE 802.11af Channel Aggregation with Prototype Radio Device

Abstract

In this study, we experimentally evaluate the throughput of the channel aggregation by using the prototype devices supporting the channel aggregation function defined in IEEE 802.11af. Specifically, we first evaluate throughput stability in the case that communication quality of the secondary channel is significantly degraded. Then, by changing MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) as data fragmentation size, we evaluate the dependence of the throughput gain on the data packet size.