Research Article

Acknowledgement Corruption: A New Aspect of Physical Layer Capture in IEEE 802.11 Networks

Table 5

Comparison of the merged traffic trace and system-provided statistics (802.11a).

Bit rate Positions 1, 4 Positions 2, 4 Positions 3, 4
Near Far Near Far Near Far Near Far

802.11a 54 Mbps 24 Mbps 99.83% 99.57% 99.66% 99.59% - -
48 Mbps 24 Mbps 99.84% 99.5% 99.72% 99.62% 99.41% 99.49%
24 Mbps 24 Mbps 99.84% 99.95% 99.88% 99.97% 99.73% 99.57%
12 Mbps 24 Mbps 99.63% 99.77% 99.9% 99.86% 99.34% 99.72%