802.11 ağlar icin başarım arttırım yöntemleri

802.11 networks have enabled and are fueled by the proliferation of connected mobile devices with a wide variety of applications, which have been integral parts of our daily lives. Currently, IEEE 802.11ac is a state-of-art protocol that provides higher data rates than its predecessors to accommodate the increasing demands of users with more bandwidth, spatial streams, modulation schemes, and downlink multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO). In addition, 802.11ac protocol inherits aggregation and QoS prioritization, from 802.11n and 802.11e, respectively. On the other hand, some new features of the latest 802.11 standard may cause adverse affects to the co-existing legacy nodes. For example, the MU-MIMO feature may result in the deafness problem, and QoS prioritization and MAC layer aggregation cause significantly lower performance in classical hidden node scenario - even with the RTS/CTS handshake mechanism. Also, delay and/or packet loss in TCP significantly decreases end-to-end throughput due to congestion control. This thesis studies and verifies these problems, proposes a methodology to mitigate the deafness problem in MU-MIMO, analyzes experimentally the effectiveness of multiple TCP connections to improve TCP throughput, and finally provides a framework via multiple-synced-sniffing methodology to diagnose hidden-node problems.