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Next generation IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks : Current status, future directions and open challenges

As wireless devices boom and bandwidth-hungry applications (e.g., video and cloud uploading) get popular, today's wireless local area networks (WLANs) become not only crowded but also stressed at throughput. Multiuser multiple-input–multiple-output (MU-MIMO), an advanced form of MIMO, has gained attention due to its huge potential in improving the performance of WLANs. This paper surveys random access-based medium access control (MAC) protocols for MU-MIMO-enabled WLANs. It first provides background information about the evolution and the fundamental MAC schemes of IEEE 802.11 Standards and Amendments, and then identifies the key requirements of designing MU-MIMO MAC protocols for WLANs. After this, the most representative MU-MIMO MAC proposals in the literature are overviewed by benchmarking their MAC procedures and examining the key components, such as the channel state information acquisition, decoding/precoding, and scheduling schemes. Classifications and discussions on important findings of the surveyed MAC protocols are provided, based on which, the research challenges for designing effective MU-MIMO MAC protocols, as well as the envisaged MAC's role in the future heterogeneous networks, are highlighted.

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MU-MIMO MAC Protocols for Wireless Local Area Networks: A Survey

Since the inception of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs) in 1997, wireless networking technologies have tremendously grown in the last few decades. The fundamental IEEE 802.11 physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) protocols have continuously been enriched with new technologies to provide the last mile wireless broadband connectivity to end users. Consequently, several new amendments of the basic IEEE 802.11 gradually came up in the forms of IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, and IEEE 802.11g. More recently, IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.11ac, and IEEE 802.11ad are introduced with enhanced PHY and MAC layers that boost up physical data rates to the order of Gigabit per second. So, these amendments are generally known as high throughput WLANs (HT-WLANs). In HT-WLANs, PHY layer is enhanced with multiple-input multiple-output antenna technologies, channel bonding, short guard intervals, enhanced modulation and coding schemes. The MAC sublayer overhead is reduced by introducing frame aggregation and block acknowledgement technologies. However, several existing studies reveal that, many a time, the aforesaid PHY and MAC enhancements yield negative impact on various upper layer protocols, that is end-to-end transport and application layer protocols. As a consequence, a large number of researchers have focused on improving the coordination among PHY/MAC and upper layer protocols. In this survey, we discuss impact of HT-WLAN PHY and MAC layer enhancements on various transport and application layer protocols. This paper also summarizes several research works that use aforesaid enhancements effectively to boost up data rate of end-to-end protocols. We also point out limitations of the existing researches and list down different open challenges that can be meaningfully explored for the development of the next generation HT-WLAN technologies.

Impact of IEEE 802.11n/ac PHY/MAC High Throughput Enhancements on Transport and Application Protocols—A Survey

Mahmut C. Selekoglu, Adana Cimento, Turkey, presents a reminder of the basic considerations in approaching energy-efficient processes.

How to be Energy Efficient

We propose a channel access mechanism that allows Long Term Evolution (LTE) to operate in the 5-GHz unlicensed band (LTE-U/LAA) and fairly coexist with 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The proposed mechanism is compliant with listen before talk, and it can be configured to maximize the channel time used by the LTE-U stations while fairly coexisting with the 802.11 WLANs. That is, an LTE-U station will not affect the throughput of a WLAN more than if it were an 802.11 station.

Maximizing LTE Capacity in Unlicensed Bands (LTE-U/LAA) While Fairly Coexisting With 802.11 WLANs

According to the ongoing IEEE 802.11ac amendment, the wireless network is about to embrace the gigabit-per-second raw data rate. Compared with previous IEEE standards, this significant performance improvement can be attributed to the novel physical and medium access control (MAC) features, such as multi-user multiple-input multiple-output transmissions, the frame aggregation, and the channel bonding. In this paper, we first briefly survey the main features of IEEE 802.11ac, and then, we evaluate these new features in a fully connected wireless mesh network using an analytic model and simulations. More specifically, the performance of the MAC scheme defined by IEEE 802.11ac, which employs the explicit compressed feedback (ECFB) mechanism for the channel sounding, is evaluated. In addition, we propose an extended request-to-send/clear-to-send scheme that integrates the ECFB operation to compare with the IEEE 802.11ac-defined one in saturated conditions. The comparison of the two MAC schemes is conducted through three spatial stream allocation algorithms. A simple but accurate analytical model is derived for the two MAC schemes, the results of which are validated with simulations. The observations of the results not only reveal the importance of spatial stream allocations but also provide insight into how the newly introduced features could affect the performance of IEEE 802.11ac-based wireless mesh networks.

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Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11ac wireless backhaul networks in saturated conditions

Future mobile networks will exploit unlicensed spectrum to boost capacity and meet growing user demands cost-effectively. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has recently defined a License Assisted Access (LAA) scheme to enable global Unlicensed LTE (U-LTE) deployment, aiming at 1) ensuring fair coexistence with incumbent WiFi networks, i.e., impacting on their performance no more than another WiFi device; and 2) achieving superior airtime efficiency as compared with WiFi. We show the standardized LAA fails to simultaneously fulfill these objectives, and design an alternative orthogonal (collision-free) listen-before-talk coexistence paradigm that provides a substantial improvement in performance, yet imposes no penalty on existing WiFi networks. We derive two optimal transmission policies, ORLA and OLAA, that maximize LAA throughput in both asynchronous and synchronous (i.e., with alignment to licensed anchor frame boundaries) modes of operation, respectively. We present a comprehensive evaluation through which we demonstrate that, when aggregating packets, IEEE 802.11ac WiFi can be more efficient than LAA, whereas our proposals attains 100% higher throughput, without harming WiFi. We further show that long U-LTE frames incur up to 92% throughput losses on WiFi when using 3GPP LAA, whilst ORLA/OLAA sustain >200% gains at no cost, even in the presence of non-saturated WiFi and/or in multi-rate scenarios.

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ORLA/OLAA: Orthogonal Coexistence of LAA and WiFi in Unlicensed Spectrum

We consider the proportional fair rate allocation in an 802.11 WLAN that supports multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) transmission by one or more stations. We characterise, for the first time, the proportional fair allocation of MU-MIMO spatial streams and station transmission opportunities. While a number of features carry over from the case without MU-MIMO, in general neither flows nor stations need to be allocated equal airtime when MU-MIMO is available.

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Proportional Fair MU-MIMO in 802.11 WLANs

Network densification over space and spectrum is expected to be key to enabling the requirements of next generation mobile systems. The pitfall is that radio resource allocation becomes substantially more complex. In this paper, we propose LaSR, a practical multi-connectivity scheduler for OFDMA-based multi-RAT systems. LaSR makes optimal discrete control actions by solving a sequence of simple optimization problems that do not require prior information of traffic patterns. In marked contrast to previous work, the flexibility of our approach allows us to construct scheduling policies that achieve a good balance between system cost and utility satisfaction, while jointly operate across heterogeneous RATs, accommodate real-system requirements, and guarantee system stability. Examples of system requirements considered in this paper include (but are not limited to): constraints on how scheduling data can be encoded onto signaling protocols (e.g., LTE's DCI), delays when turning on/off radio units, or on/off cycles when using unlicensed spectrum. We evaluate our scheduler via a thorough simulation campaign in a variety of scenarios with e.g., mobile users, RATs using unlicensed spectrum (using a duty cycle access mechanism), imperfect queue state information, and constrained signaling protocol.

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Victor Valls

Papers

Maximizing LTE Capacity in Unlicensed Bands (LTE-U/LAA) While Fairly Coexisting With 802.11 WLANs

Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11ac wireless backhaul networks in saturated conditions

ORLA/OLAA: Orthogonal Coexistence of LAA and WiFi in Unlicensed Spectrum

Proportional Fair MU-MIMO in 802.11 WLANs

LaSR: A Supple Multi-Connectivity Scheduler for Multi-RAT OFDMA Systems