An enhanced A-MSDU frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks
The main goal of the IEEE 802.11n standard is to achieve a minimum throughput of 100 Mbps at the MAC service access point. This high throughput has been achieved via many enhancements in both the physical and MAC layers. A key enhancement at the MAC layer is frame aggregation in which the timing and...
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| description | The main goal of the IEEE 802.11n standard is to achieve a minimum throughput of 100 Mbps at the MAC service access point. This high throughput has been achieved via many enhancements in both the physical and MAC layers. A key enhancement at the MAC layer is frame aggregation in which the timing and headers overheads of the legacy MAC are reduced by aggregating multiple frames into a single large frame before being transmitted. Two aggregation schemes have been defined by the 802.11n standard, aggregate
MAC service data unit (A-MSDU) and aggregate MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU). As a consequence of the aggregation, newaggregation headers are introduced and become parts of
the transmitted frame. Even though these headers are small compared to the legacy headers they still have a negative impact on the network performance, especially when aggregating frames of small payload. Moreover, the A-MSDU is highly influenced by the channel condition due mainly to lack of subframes sequence control and retransmission. In this paper, we have proposed an aggregation scheme (mA-MSDU) that reduces the aggregation headers and
implements a retransmission control over the individual subframes at the MSDU level. The analysis and simulations results show the significance of the proposed scheme, specifically for applications that have a small frame size such as VoIP. |
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| spelling | upm-184552016-02-17T02:18:18Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/18455/ An enhanced A-MSDU frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks Saif, Anwar Othman, Mohamed Subramaniam, Shamala Abdul Hamid, Nor Asila Wati The main goal of the IEEE 802.11n standard is to achieve a minimum throughput of 100 Mbps at the MAC service access point. This high throughput has been achieved via many enhancements in both the physical and MAC layers. A key enhancement at the MAC layer is frame aggregation in which the timing and headers overheads of the legacy MAC are reduced by aggregating multiple frames into a single large frame before being transmitted. Two aggregation schemes have been defined by the 802.11n standard, aggregate MAC service data unit (A-MSDU) and aggregate MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU). As a consequence of the aggregation, newaggregation headers are introduced and become parts of the transmitted frame. Even though these headers are small compared to the legacy headers they still have a negative impact on the network performance, especially when aggregating frames of small payload. Moreover, the A-MSDU is highly influenced by the channel condition due mainly to lack of subframes sequence control and retransmission. In this paper, we have proposed an aggregation scheme (mA-MSDU) that reduces the aggregation headers and implements a retransmission control over the individual subframes at the MSDU level. The analysis and simulations results show the significance of the proposed scheme, specifically for applications that have a small frame size such as VoIP. Springer 2012-10 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/18455/1/An%20enhanced%20A-MSDU%20frame%20aggretation%20scheme%20for%20802.11n%20wireless%20networks.pdf Saif, Anwar and Othman, Mohamed and Subramaniam, Shamala and Abdul Hamid, Nor Asila Wati (2012) An enhanced A-MSDU frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks. Wireless Personal Communications, 66 (4). pp. 683-706. ISSN 1572-834X Wireless LANs Wireless communication systems IEEE 802.11 (Standard) 10.1007/s11277-011-0358-8 English |
| spellingShingle | Wireless LANs Wireless communication systems IEEE 802.11 (Standard) Saif, Anwar Othman, Mohamed Subramaniam, Shamala Abdul Hamid, Nor Asila Wati An enhanced A-MSDU frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks |
| title | An enhanced A-MSDU frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks |
| title_full | An enhanced A-MSDU frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks |
| title_fullStr | An enhanced A-MSDU frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | An enhanced A-MSDU frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks |
| title_short | An enhanced A-MSDU frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks |
| title_sort | enhanced a-msdu frame aggretation scheme for 802.11n wireless networks |
| topic | Wireless LANs Wireless communication systems IEEE 802.11 (Standard) |
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