Parallel PPDU Transmission Mechanism for Wideband Wireless LANs

When the preambles of a wideband 802.11n/ac frame transmission are affected by a collision with a 20MHz frame on one of the subchannels, a receiver might fail to decode the whole wideband frame. Experimental evaluations with off-the-shelf 802.11n hardware showed that the vulnerability of wideband fr...

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Published in:IEEE access 2020, Vol.8, p.198714-198729
Main Authors: Seytnazarov, Shinnazar, Jeong, Dong Geun, Jeon, Wha Sook
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Broadband
channel bonding
IEEE 802.11n Standard
Interference
Narrowband
narrowband collision
parallel transmission
Performance evaluation
Receivers
Throughput
Traffic
wide channel access
Wideband
Wireless LAN
wireless local area network (WLAN)
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Summary:When the preambles of a wideband 802.11n/ac frame transmission are affected by a collision with a 20MHz frame on one of the subchannels, a receiver might fail to decode the whole wideband frame. Experimental evaluations with off-the-shelf 802.11n hardware showed that the vulnerability of wideband frame transmission to a narrowband collision/interference is a real problem. To mitigate the severe impact of narrowband collision/interference on wideband transmission, we propose to transmit several 20MHz frames in parallel instead of a single wideband frame so that a narrowband collision on one of the subchannels affects only the parallel frame transmitted on that subchannel. Performance evaluations demonstrated that the proposed parallel frame transmission scheme significantly improves the throughput and delay performance of wideband transmissions under different traffic and channel conditions. While the throughput performance of the proposed scheme for saturated traffic conditions was analytically validated, extensive simulation-based evaluations showed that the proposed scheme achieves great performance improvement for unsaturated traffic conditions and hidden node environment.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3034599