On the Benefits of Channel Bonding in Dense, Decentralized Wi-Fi 4 Networks

Table 5

Percentage of STAs that increase (+)/keep (=)/decrease (−) their throughput (and average increase/decrease) with two orthogonal 40 MHz channels in the 2.4 GHz Europe setting.

	% STA			Increase/decrease (Mbps)
	+	=	−	Increase	Decrease
1	55.00	8.50	36.50	23.52	−9.03
2	45.75	7.75	46.50	22.42	−8.20
3	44.33	9.33	46.33	20.48	−7.33
4	41.38	9.25	49.38	20.25	−7.24
5	41.30	11.10	47.60	19.77	−6.72
6	34.33	13.08	52.58	20.68	−7.05
7	35.36	14.21	50.43	19.93	−6.59
8	32.31	13.94	53.75	20.31	−6.10
9	32.11	15.72	52.17	18.99	−6.56
10	28.50	17.40	54.10	19.50	−6.38
11	31.14	18.23	50.64	18.39	−6.66
12	28.96	18.88	52.17	19.03	−6.48