{"id":4615,"date":"2018-09-12T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2023-02-28T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:14:52","slug":"interference-free-alternatives-to-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/interference-free-alternatives-to-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative Analysis of Interference-Free Alternatives to Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"By Timothy Truckle [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0 )], from Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sidelobes_en.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/74\/Sidelobes_en.svg\/256px-Sidelobes_en.svg.png\" alt=\"Sidelobes en\" width=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again I have the pleasure of announcing the next Communication in Engineering (CCOM 206) Excellence in Written Communication Award. Alexandre Tessier is the Fall 2017 winner for &#8216;Comparative Analysis of Interference-Free Alternatives to Wi-Fi&#8217; (yay!).<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Current Wi-Fi technologies occupy oversaturated 2.4 GHz and 5GHz frequency bands. In areas with high router density, this results in poor Wi-Fi performances, and, especially, slow data transfer rates at a time when demand for high-speed networks is rising. To minimize these effects, new technologies taking advantage of the availability of higher frequencies have been developed.In particular, Li-Fi and WiGig aim to transfer data wirelessly at rates faster than Wi-Fi and, more importantly, without interference. This paper assesses the viability of these two technologies as interference-free alternatives to Wi-Fi based on 3 standard networking attributes: data transmission capabilities, security, and vulnerability to interference. The analysis concludes that Li-Fi can transfer data at higher rates than WiGig, can be used to implement location-based security levels, and, unlike WiGig, is impervious to interference from neighbouring cells. For the aforementioned reasons, Li-Fi is the most promising candidate for an alternative to Wi-Fi, vastly outperforming current implementations of WiGig.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.mcgill.ca\/concern\/papers\/sn00b1639?locale=en\">Download the full paper<\/a> from the University&#8217;s open access repository.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Alexandre!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I have the pleasure of announcing the next Communication in Engineering (CCOM 206) Excellence in Written Communication Award. Alexandre Tessier is the Fall 2017 winner for &#8216;Comparative Analysis of Interference-Free Alternatives to Wi-Fi&#8217; (yay!). Abstract: Current Wi-Fi technologies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/interference-free-alternatives-to-wi-fi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,208,70,63,256],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ccom-206-award","tag-ccom-206","tag-engineering","tag-mcgill-university","tag-wcom-206-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}