Performance study of the integration between wireless LAN and ATM LAN

• Main Author: Liew, Jing Hong
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology 2005
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1717/2/Liew%20Jing%20Hong.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1717/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Merits of both emerging WLANs and high-speed ATM LANs motivate the integration of these two LANs. Nevertheless, there are various differences between the two LANs. Furthermore, IEEE 802.11b WLANs encounter a problem of bandwidth limitation, where data rates supported are up to only 11 Mbps, compared to 155 Mbps supported by ATM. Therefore, it is a challenge to integrate a WLAN and an ATM LAN. In this research, a PC-based router or multihomed computer is set up to integrate a WLAN and an ATM LAN. Experiments are conducted to investigate the performance, in particular the throughput and video performances, of the integration, and the improve the performance.