Sizing of a Wi-Fi network in an apartment building

This final thesis is about how to size a wireless network in an apartment building. This building is made up of ground floor and six more floors and it is situated in the neighborhood of “La Milagrosa” in Pamplona.

This project has the following objectives or parts: The first chapter tries to introduce us in the radio frequency world and after that it makes a small introduction about the wireless technologies. In chapter two it is explained the hardware that is going to be used in the building, the characteristics more than anything. The most important equipments are one access point, the antenna of the AP and the receiver laptop. Chapter three is reserved to the parameters and the calculations; we are going to study the link budget and then the data and VoIP services. Chapter four is one economic balance that shows us how many money has to be invert at first moments and how many years are going to be needed to retrieve this first inversion.