Employing WiFi Direct to Build a Wireless Network over both 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz bands

TL;DR

This paper explores using WiFi Direct to create a dual-band wireless network over 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz, demonstrating improved throughput by reducing interference compared to single-band networks.

Contribution

It introduces a method for constructing dual-band WiFi networks using WiFi Direct, enhancing performance by leveraging both frequency bands.

Findings

Dual-band networks outperform single-band in throughput

Interference is minimized by using separate frequency bands

WiFi Direct enables flexible dual-band multi-hop network setup

Abstract

Almost all the WiFi networks today provide single band (either 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz) wireless communication functionality for connected mobile nodes. In a single band network, the interference depends on number of nodes in the network and the presence of other networks in the proximity. As the number of nodes in a Network increases, the interference in the network also increases which reduces the throughput of the network. If there are two single band networks, one operating in 2.4 GHz frequency band and other in 5.8 GHz frequency band, then nodes in network 1 will not cause any interference with nodes in network 2. This can be used as a basic idea to implement a network where the nodes in the same network use both the frequency bands to minimize the interference between nodes. We show that building dual band multi-hop network gives better performance in terms of throughput compared to that of a network with single frequency band.