Performance Investigation of 5 GHz Fixed Wireless Access Network

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks made substantial progress in providing reliable wireless services for users everywhere. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt in Libya to study and assess the performance of a realistic local FWA network operating on an unlicensed 5 GHz band despite the widespread networks of this type throughout the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of several factors and measurements that affect network performance. The study depends on measurements extracted from a real dataset of an active FWA network. The central performance metric we consider is the capacity offered by the network to the subscribers. Using modern and powerful Python libraries, we present statistical summaries for those factors to estimate the impact of each one individually on the performance. Finally, we utilized the well-known free space Path Loss (PL) model behavior to demonstrate and validate the accuracy of our measurements.