Measurement and analysis of the error characteristics of an in-building wireless network
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Analysis of a local-area wireless network
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A rate-adaptive MAC protocol for multi-Hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Characterizing user behavior and network performance in a public wireless LAN
SIGMETRICS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Opportunistic media access for multirate ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Effect of Hidden Terminals on the Performance of IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol
LCN '98 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The changing usage of a mature campus-wide wireless network
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Hybrid rate control for IEEE 802.11
Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols
Access and mobility of wireless PDA users
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
ExOR: opportunistic multi-hop routing for wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Measurement-based characterization of 802.11 in a hotspot setting
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
Understanding link-layer behavior in highly congested IEEE 802.11b wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Jigsaw: solving the puzzle of enterprise 802.11 analysis
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Robust rate adaptation for 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Using emulation to understand and improve wireless networks and applications
NSDI'05 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 2
Trading structure for randomness in wireless opportunistic routing
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An experimental study on the capture effect in 802.11a networks
Proceedings of the second ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
Efficient channel-aware rate adaptation in dynamic environments
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Zigzag decoding: combating hidden terminals in wireless networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The importance of being overheard: throughput gains in wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Channel quality estimation and rate adaptation for cellular mobile radio
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Comparing metro-area cellular and WiFi performance: extended abstract
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE joint international conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
802.11ec: collision avoidance without control messages
Proceedings of the 18th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Cell vs. WiFi: on the performance of metro area mobile connections
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Experimental evaluation of a wireless community mesh network
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis & simulation of wireless and mobile systems
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Despite many years of work in wireless mesh networks built using 802.11 radios, the performance and behavior of these networks in the wild is not well-understood. This lack of understanding is due in part to the lack of access to data from a wide range of these networks; most researchers have access to only one or two testbeds at any time. In recent years, however, 802.11 mesh networks networks have been deployed commercially and have real users who use the networks in a wide range of conditions. This paper analyzes data collected from 1407 access points in 110 different commercially deployed Meraki wireless mesh networks, constituting perhaps the largest study of real-world 802.11 networks to date. After analyzing a 24-hour snapshot of data collected from these networks, we answer questions from a variety of active research topics, such as the accuracy of SNR-based bit rate adaptation, the impact of opportunistic routing, and the prevalence of hidden terminals. The size and diversity of our data set allows us to analyze claims previously only made in small-scale studies. In particular, we find that the SNR of a link is a good indicator of the optimal bit rate for that link, but that one could not make an SNR-to-bit rate look-up table that was accurate for an entire network. We also find that an ideal opportunistic routing protocol provides little to no benefit on most paths, and that "hidden triples"---network topologies that can lead to hidden terminals--are more common than suggested in previous work, and increase in proportion as the bit rate increases.