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What is WiFiMon?

WiFiMon is a WiFi network monitoring and performance verification system. It is capable

to detect

of detecting performance issues,

to visualize workload of the network, and to provide the

visualising the achievable throughput of a wireless network for each user, and providing technical information about

the

a WiFi network (e.g., signal strength, link quality, bit rate, etc.). WiFiMon leverages

on

well-known performance verification tools (e.g., Akamai Boomerang

,

 and Speedtest) and in addition uses

the

data from the WiFi physical layer in order to gather

the most

a comprehensive set of WiFi network performance metrics. 

For more information, please explore the wiki tabs to the left, or visit the GÉANT WiFiMon service page.



WiFiMon Operation Modes


WiFiMon can operate in two different modes which can be used either separately or together

:WiFiMon crowdsourced performance measurements, where measurements


Software Crowdsourced Measurements

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Measurements are gathered from users' mobile devices (phones, laptops, tablets, etc.) while they use the network. This approach does not require any additional software to be installed on the mobile devices. Measurements are recorded while the end users use the network and impose

the

a minimal additional network overhead. Crowdsourced measurements capture the subjective perception of the WiFi network quality of service and responsiveness.

Hardware Probe Measurements

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Measurements

Fixed WiFiMon measurements using deterministic, hardware probe based performance measurements, where measurements

are gathered from

the

dedicated small form factor hardware devices (currently Raspberry

Pi’s

Pi devices). Fixed WiFiMon measurements capture

the

objective

measures

measurements of WiFi network quality (signal strength, link quality, bit rate etc.).

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 WiFiMon is:

Technology agnostic:



WiFiMon Features


Technology and vendor agnostic

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WiFiMon can be deployed on any

IEEE802.1x enabled WiFi networks including eduroam

WiFi network as it monitors the performance on the network layer

. Crowd aware:

. It can also provide additional benefits in 802.1x enabled networks including eduroam in which case users can make various performance analyses per access point, per user, etc.

Fine grained information on network performance

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WiFiMon shows the end-user (mobile client)

behavior

behaviour on a network, its perception about the responsiveness of the network and the speed of web

resources download

resource downloads, correlation of the performance data with end-user data, and data analysis with an effective query builder. 

Ease

Easy to deploy

: 

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WiFiMon is a software image (also available as

an

a Docker

-

Image) and can be easily deployed on an NREN/University network on hardware or software probes.

Low-Invasive:


Active monitoring with low network overhead

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WiFiMon active measurements are not significantly invasive and do not use

too much of the available

any significant bandwidth. One WiFiMon measurement is comparable to one average web-page download (load speed).