A channel reservation based multi-channel MAC protocol with serial cooperation for the next Generation WLAN

Bo Yang, Bo Li, Zhongjiang Yan, Mao Yang

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Abstract

Most recently, an enhancement amendment named IEEE 802.11ax is proposed by the High-Efficiency WLAN (HEW) Task Group for the Next Generation WLAN (NGW), with a focus on improving spectrum efficiency as well as area throughput. However, collisions among stations (STAs) and Low-Rate-Links (LRLs) severely degrade the network performance, which have become a great matter of concern. In this paper, a channel reservation based multi-channel MAC protocol with serial cooperation is proposed for the next generation WLAN, called CRSC-MMAC, to explore the capabilities of both cooperative relay and channel reservation. In particular, with cooperative relay available, a LRL is divided into two wireless links that sequentially occur on the same data channel with higher data rate. Besides, by using multi-step channel reservation, multiple cooperative transmission opportunities can be reserved in advance with only one successful handshake on the control channel, and thus collisions are effectively alleviated. Extensive simulations are deployed using ns-2 simulator, simulation results show that saturation throughput of the proposed CRSC-MMAC protocol is nearly two times of that of the 'Baseline' scheme, and average packet delay of CRSC-MMAC is decreased by nearly 33%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSPCC 2016 - IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, Conference Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509027088
DOIs
StatePublished - 22 Nov 2016
Event2016 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2016 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20168 Aug 2016

Publication series

NameICSPCC 2016 - IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, Conference Proceedings

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period5/08/168/08/16

Keywords

  • channel reservation
  • cooperative relay
  • Medium access control
  • multi-channel
  • the next generation WLAN

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