IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
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An Efficient ARQ Scheme under IEEE 802.11ac Error Channel
Xueyan LIPeng CHENGBin WU
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2022 Volume E105.A Issue 4 Pages 694-703

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In this paper, an automatic retransmission request (ARQ) scheme for IEEE 802.11ac is presented, which can solve the problem of severe packet loss and greatly improve the performance in error-prone environments. The proposed solution only requires to be deployed on the sender and is compatible with the 802.11 protocol. The algorithm utilizes the basic strategy of sliding retransmission and then adds the method of copying frames. The media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) lost in the transmission and the newly added data frame brought by the sliding window change are replicated. The scheme retransmits the duplicated aggregated packet and further improves the throughput by increasing the probability of successful transmission of sub-frames. Besides, we also establish a mathematical model to analyze the performance of the proposed scheme. We introduce the concept of average aggregated sub-frames and express the sliding retransmission strategy as the aggregated transmission of average aggregated sub-frames, thereby simplifying the model and effectively analyzing the theoretical throughput of the proposed algorithm. The simulation results of Network simulator 3 (NS-3) simulation results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than the traditional sliding retransmission ARQ algorithm in error-prone channels with a higher physical layer rate.

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