Researchers from the university of North Carolina have found a solution to deteriorating throughput in heavily loaded wi-fi networks. With a simple firmwarefix is the throughput when a large number of users by 400 to 700 percent.
In heavily loaded wi-fi routers increases, the throughput often decreases, because all of the users and the router itself on the same channel to communicate. Researchers from North Carolina State University have managed to use the doorsnelheid with heavier loads to improve. The improvement is software based and would therefore easily can be introduced on existing routers.
The fix, called WiFox, it would be at 25 concurrent users for a 400 percent increase in throughput, ensure and 45 users for a 700 percent higher throughput. On average, it would be a WiFox network four times better performance than a ‘normal’ network. More precise figures, for example, the concrete gains in Mbps, are not mentioned.
The fix is simple; he makes sure that if the wi-fi router is a backlog builds up of data that need to be sent to connected users, the data that the router sends a higher priority. That can be at the expense of the speed at which users can transmit data. What impact that has, is unclear. Also unknown is how long the router with higher priority will get to send data. The full test is not until next month, announced, during a conference in France.