KDDI, Qualcomm, Ruckus Networks and Sharp announced that they have performed the world's first successful field trials to improve the performance and user experience of public Wi-Fi network, based on the Wi-Fi Alliance's Vantage 2 features.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform and Ruckus' R610 and R710 access points (APs) powered by IPQ806x and QCA99xx networking chipset were used for the trials.
The trial which was conducted in February on KDDI's public Wi-Fi network at the Shibuya train station in Tokyo, Japan, achieved up to 10x faster connection set-up and up to 30% improvement in network efficiency, claims the companies.
The public Wi-Fi network congestion is estimated due to increasing number of overseas visitors to Japan, heavy traffic at big events, free Wi-Fi services in future disasters.
In the trials, Vantage features that were validated are - improvement in network efficiency in congested environments by reducing overhead, avoidance of unstable connection due to weak link quality to an access point, and shortened connection times to public wireless networks.
