Evaluación de la tecnología PowerLine HomePlug AV2 y Ethernet combinadas con IEEE 802.11b para mejorar el desempeño de redes Soho.

Abstract

In the present work, the main objective is: "Evaluate PowerLineHomePlug AV2 technology compared to Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), both in combination with WiFi (IEEE 802.11b), to improve the performance of SOHO networks". For which, two test environments were implemented and two networks were configured with the technologies mentioned above. By means of the "Ping" command and the jPerf program in its version 2.0.2; It has obtained indicators such as: Bandwidth, Throughput, percentage of lost packets, Jitter, with the protocols: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP), for each network. Analyzed the results of the tests in the two networks, it is obtained that: The "bandwidth" indicator in the SOHO PowerLine HomePlug AV2 Network with WiFi (IEEE 802.11b), is 33.32% higher, in the transmission of data using the TCP protocol and 6.83% higher with the UDP protocol, compared to the Ethernet network (IEEE 802.3) combined with WiFi (IEEE 802.11b). Although there is a difference between the averages of the indicators of the two networks, the consistency of these results was checked by means of a statistical analysis with the SPSS program with a hypothesis test. With which it is shown that the values of the indicators: UDP lost datagrams, TCP Bandwidth and TCP Throughput, do not exceed the significance level Pvalue = 5%, so the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected: There are no statistically significant differences between the performance indicators of SOHO networks), While for the UDP protocol this null hypothesis (H0) is accepted, and as the average values of the Jitter indicator are lower for PowerLine HomePLug AV2 technology so It can be said that PowerLine HomePlug AV2 technology, "is" an alternative to Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) both with WiFi (IEEE 802.11b), to improve the performance of SOHO networks.