Functional Approach for Reliability Evaluation of WLAN Communication Networks

Communication networks have become integral part of our modern IoT systems. These networks are widely being used in industrial, commercial and residential applications. Reliability analysis plays a major role in identification of existing problems in network, and on improving communication based on node capabilities.To ensure error free communication in any network, usually BER/PER estimation is performed on bit or packet level. In case of WLAN networks, availability as matrix would be the best suit to measure the reliability of the communication network. The System Behavioral Test (SBT) approach is implemented to cover the effects of noise parameters on the communication reliability.This paper focuses on defining a standard approach for risk identification and testing strategy for WLAN type of networks. This work focusses on defining failure modes, factors impacting those failure modes, and standard test strategy based on SBT for any product in which WLAN communication is used.