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Wireless LANs (WLANs) are mainly used as access networks in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, and the latest standard IEEE802.11ax requires WLANs to communicate with multiple stations simultaneously. As IoT devices proliferate, the number of stations connected to a WLAN will significantly increase, and thus WLANs will need to accommodate IoT traffic with new characteristics totally different from those of traditional traffic, such as rich content. Because our previous study showed that the performance of an IEEE802.11ax WLAN depends on the number of stations and traffic characteristics, a new traffic control scheme becomes essential for the coexistence of rich content and IoT traffic. Therefore, we investigated the traffic characteristics of IoT devices to clarify their differences. Based on these considerations, we concluded that a real-time traffic estimation and classification method is necessary for real-time traffic control on WLANs in the IoT era.
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This study was supported in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under KAKENHI Grant Number 23K11092, and a research grant from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation.
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Magarifuchi, I., Tamura, H., Tsukamoto, K. (2023). Experimental Evaluation of Application Traffic Characteristics on WLANs in the IoT Era. In: Barolli, L. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. INCoS 2023. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 182. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40971-4_48
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