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Translating full duplexity into capacity gains for the high-priority traffic classes of IEEE 802.11

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In this paper we present PbP-EDCA, a Full Duplex (FD) MAC protocol that operates according to the high-priority access rules of the standard IEEE 802.11 EDCA. With PbP-EDCA, nodes that win a contention perform a sequence of narrow-band orthogonal transmissions rather than one single wide-band. PbP-EDCA employs the Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) to avoid sequences starting at the same time and takes advantage of self-interference free radios to enable multiple simultaneous orthogonal transmissions to/from a single-radio access point. By exploiting FD and the EDCA contention values standardized for high-priority traffic classes, we show that PbP-EDCA can scale the gains claimed by single-link FD proposals in a network-wide domain. Our results indicate one scenario in which PbP-EDCA can achieve about 3× the capacity of the IEEE 802.11 half duplex MAC.

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