- Describe and explain in detail wireless data communication technology.
- Design, deploy and test a secure wireless local area network system.
- Analyse protocol information in a wireless local area network.
- Perform a pre-deployment critical site survey.

Task 1 - Multi-floor planning using ESS

You are required to perform a planning operation for a simple multi-floor environment. The floor plan details are shown in appendix 1. The building is a multi-floor (3 floors)multi-tenant office building and you must simulate this multi-floor environment in ESS.The 1st floor, which you are to design for, is a high occupancy area, with 100 clients requiring high speed access and 50 voip phones.

The ground and 2nd floors are already occupied by tenants already using Wi-Fi.

The APs for the ground and 2nd floors are shown on the plan. A survey suggests that the ground floor APs both operate on Channel 1 in B mode only. The APs on the 2nd floor operate on Channel 1 and 6 in G mode.

You need to deploy APs on the 1st floor operating in the 2.4 GHz range to best support the requirements.

In carrying out your simulation work, partially because the requirements are not precise, you will need to make a number of assumptions. These assumptions must be made very clear and need to be reasonable in nature.

Task 2 - Performing a wireless site survey

You are to perform a full ESS survey of Ellison building D and E block ground floor, including the Zone and the public area outside the Zone between Ellison building and the Gym/Go-Cafe. The client (the University) wants to ensure it has excellent wireless coverage within the building and in the space between the buildings. You only need to survey student accessible spaces.

CAUTION

Care must be taken carrying out the survey outside the buildings. This is a public area and you must respect other users of the space.
You need to report your method, results and recommendations.

Task 3 - Wireless deployment and testing

Based on your results for Task 2, you are to choose one section of your area, where you believe coverage is inadequate and install one or more access points at optimal locations. Measure the impact of the installed access points.

For the remainder of the area, you should perform predictive planning (as in Task 1) to ascertain how to attain full and proper coverage.
Report your method, results and discussions around the results. The discussions should include costing for any additional equipment required and installation costs to provide desired highest quality coverage.