Determining Cluster Distance when Designing High - Density WI-FI

This article examines the issues and problems of building and organizing a wireless network with a high density of clients. Nowadays, when the number of devices that one person has with him at a time is constantly growing, the load on the network equipment used by the Wi-Fi network also increases. Already at the design stage, it is important to take into account the fact that the projected network will have a segment where a large share of traffic will be concentrated. The article describes the process of calculating a network at the design stage, which helps to calculate the optimal distance to the access point at which the loss of signal power from the point will be minimal. For the calculation, the network was presented as a system of clusters, where an access point to a wireless network was taken as the center of attraction (cluster), and user devices were taken as objects of attraction that form a group around the cluster. The article shows graphs of the dependence: delay time on the number of subscribers at the access point, signal level depending on the distance to the cluster. And also, a graph of the distribution of the free loss factor in space and a graph of the optimal ratio of gain and free loss factor.