We now present results that demonstrate the performance of the DenseAP system. We first establish the baseline for all our experiments. We then demonstrate the overall gains achieved by DenseAP and present a series of experiments that delineate the contribution of various facets of the DenseAP system to those gains. We also demonstrate graceful degradation of the system's performance when the number of clients increases or when number of DAPs decrease. Since a large majority of the traffic in WLANs tends to be downlink [11], we only present downlink numbers for most experiments. We have conducted uplink experiments in each case, and found the uplink results to be very similar to the downlink results.
