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Performance Analysis of Compressed Block Acknowledgment in IEEE 802.11ax

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Sebastian Günther,

Christoph LindemannAuthors Info & Claims

MobiWac '19: Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access

Pages 103 - 110

https://doi.org/10.1145/3345770.3356735

Published: 25 November 2019 Publication History

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IEEE 802.11ax utilizes frame aggregation and compressed block acknowledgements to reduce the MAC overhead and to increase the goodput. We analyze IEEE 802.11ax frame aggregation in error-prone environments and propose to adaptively limit the MPDU size. This results in MAC frames that are still small enough to have a high transmission success rate. A performance study using the discrete-event simulator ns-3 illustrates the benefits of the proposed approach. We find that a high retransmission rate results in a low utilization of the acknowledgment window and discuss its major negative impact on the goodput. Our delay-related studies further show that MAC mechanisms like strict ordering contribute disproportionally to increased latency due to head-of-line blocking, especially under high error rate conditions. We conclude that for decreased delays, smaller MPDUs are beneficial.

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Guo YLi ZLv RYang Z(2022)Evaluating the impact of aggregation and RTS/CTS schemes on IEEE 802.11 based Linear Wireless Ad‐Hoc NetworksEngineering Reports10.1002/eng2.125164:11Online publication date: 25-Apr-2022
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Performance Analysis of Compressed Block Acknowledgment in IEEE 802.11ax
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network performance analysis

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MobiWac '19: Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access

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DOI:10.1145/3345770

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Tewari B(2023)Frame aggregation aware cluster based association management for heterogeneous usersJournal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing10.1007/s12652-023-04525-914:3(2811-2826)Online publication date: 31-Jan-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-023-04525-9
Guo YLi ZLv RYang Z(2022)Evaluating the impact of aggregation and RTS/CTS schemes on IEEE 802.11 based Linear Wireless Ad‐Hoc NetworksEngineering Reports10.1002/eng2.125164:11Online publication date: 25-Apr-2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/eng2.12516
Guo YLi ZYang Z(2020)Performance Analysis of A-MSDU and UDP in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Linear Multi-hop Network2020 IEEE 10th International Conference on Electronics Information and Emergency Communication (ICEIEC)10.1109/ICEIEC49280.2020.9152319(22-25)Online publication date: Jul-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEIEC49280.2020.9152319

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