Analyzing Wireless Network Signal Performance Of Melaka Putra Specialist Hospital Case Study

Nowadays, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) has been growing rapidly in the world, especially in business and education institutions. There is much type of wireless technology on the market today such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE) 802.11a, b, g, and n series. WLAN generally consist of a central point connection called an Access Point (AP). It is the same function as hubs or switches in a star topology-based, traditional wired networks in the local area network. The Access Point (AP) can transmit data between different node of the wireless local area network and it serves as the only connection between wireless LAN and wired LAN. The rapid development of WLAN campus, it is easier for the lecturers and students gain access to targeted information anytime and anywhere. WLAN is meant for the administration usage in Putra Specialist Hospital for fetching critically important information in a real-time environment. Besides that, WLAN provide great freedom and enables users from different department to communicate and facilitate with patience and each other to communicate without special sitting at the computer. WLAN has played a big part in Putra Specialist Hospital in form of administration and public relations. Naturally being a specialist hospital it is understood that most important documents or patience medical record must be able to be fetched in a timely manner. This dissertation wants to identify the issue arise from the use of WLAN from the perspective of users and particularly from the perspective of doctors and the administration staffs. There are many issues in the implementation of WLAN in Putra Specialist Hospital, which is the coverage of WLAN limited to access, slow connection, sometimes it can be shared sometimes not and the number of APs do not support the number of existing users. This dissertation also want to investigate about the coverage of WLAN, the channels used and band interferences in the Putra Specialist Hospital. In addition, this dissertation aims to enhance the signal performance of wireless networks in the Putra Specialist Hospital