An improved bit error characteristic based method for infering the causes of bit-error packet loss in 802.11 WLAN was proposed. It adopts the phenomenon that the ending bits in bit-error packets have higher error probability, just sends the ending 1500 bit for analyzing bit-error characteristics, and it adds EVM as a new infering parameter through theory analyzing and experimental varifing. At last, the Bayes classification algorithm for judging packet loss causes was studied after the bit-error characteristics metrics were obtained. The results show that, compared with COLLIE, the precision o...