Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Technical Paper: Understanding Wireless LAN Performance Tradeoffs

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 00:48:17 -0500

Understanding Wireless
LAN Performance Trade-Offs

Wireless local-area network planners and consumers
now have the option to choose between 2.4-GHz (802.11b)
and 5-GHz (802.11a) technologies for their network designs.

Unfortunately, the information that's been available to
date has left many confused and misinformed about the
actual performance and network capacity of each.

A close look at the mathematics of signal propagation
can dispel much of the misinformation concerning 2.45
vs 5 GHz WLANs.

By Jung Yee and Hossain Pezeshki-Esfahani
Communication Systems Design
November 1, 2002

http://www.commsdesign.com/design_corner/OEG20021101S0015