Introduction#

In the Wireless communication, the term Throughput is defined as the number of data units transferred within a specified amount of time over a communication channel and reflects how the network is performing. In general, throughput is measured in bit/s or bps that is, the number of bits transferred in one second.

Many applications need to transfer a burst of data quickly over their Wi-Fi link before returning to sleep or wait state. The user measures the throughput that can be sustained by their device. This document provides information about the measurement of SiWT917 throughput performance, and the throughput observed in different protocols like TCP and UDP, uplink and downlink.

For more information, refer to the SiWT917 RCP Developers Guide and Getting Started Guide. implemented for SiWT917 RCP family of modules, which uses netlink sockets.