On the design and capacity planning of a wireless local area network

The design of a wireless local area network (WLAN) has two major issues: determining the best placement of base stations (BS) and assigning the frequency channels for those stations. The correct BS placement minimizes installation costs. Adequate channel assignment reduces signal interference and improve network throughput. This paper reports a real experience where we applied the concepts of two classical outdoor problems namely the optimal base placement problem and the fixed channel assignment problem to build a WLAN in an indoor environment.