A reliable A-MSDU frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n wireless networks
IEEE 802.11n standard is introduced to enhance the throughput to more than 100Mbps at the MAC service access point. This high throughput is achieved through several enhancements at the physical and MAC layers. Frame aggregation is a key enhancement at the MAC later in which multiple frames are conca...
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| description | IEEE 802.11n standard is introduced to enhance the throughput to more than 100Mbps at the MAC service access point. This high throughput is achieved through several enhancements at the physical and MAC layers. Frame aggregation is a key enhancement at the MAC later in which multiple frames are concatenated and then sent in one channel access. In error free channels the 802.11n
MAC service data unit aggregation (A-MSDU) performs better than the MAC protocol data unit aggregation (A-MPDU)due to
its smaller headers. However, the performance of A-MSDU at erroneous channels is poor due to lack of sub-frames integrity check. In this paper, we proposed an A-MSDU frame aggregation with sub-frame integrity check and retransmission at the MSDU level without altering the original MAC frames header structure. The results show that the proposed scheme improves the system performance in terms of throughput and delay even under highly erroneous channels. |
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| spelling | upm-430682016-05-04T03:48:12Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43068/ A reliable A-MSDU frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n wireless networks Saif, Anwar Othman, Mohamed IEEE 802.11n standard is introduced to enhance the throughput to more than 100Mbps at the MAC service access point. This high throughput is achieved through several enhancements at the physical and MAC layers. Frame aggregation is a key enhancement at the MAC later in which multiple frames are concatenated and then sent in one channel access. In error free channels the 802.11n MAC service data unit aggregation (A-MSDU) performs better than the MAC protocol data unit aggregation (A-MPDU)due to its smaller headers. However, the performance of A-MSDU at erroneous channels is poor due to lack of sub-frames integrity check. In this paper, we proposed an A-MSDU frame aggregation with sub-frame integrity check and retransmission at the MSDU level without altering the original MAC frames header structure. The results show that the proposed scheme improves the system performance in terms of throughput and delay even under highly erroneous channels. Elsevier 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43068/1/A%20Reliable%20A-MSDU%20Frame%20Aggregation%20Scheme%20in%20802.11n%20Wireless%20Networks.pdf Saif, Anwar and Othman, Mohamed (2013) A reliable A-MSDU frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n wireless networks. Procedia Computer Science, 21. pp. 191-198. ISSN 1877-0509 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050913008193 10.1016/j.procs.2013.09.026 |
| spellingShingle | Saif, Anwar Othman, Mohamed A reliable A-MSDU frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n wireless networks |
| title | A reliable A-MSDU frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n
wireless networks
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| title_full | A reliable A-MSDU frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n
wireless networks
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| title_fullStr | A reliable A-MSDU frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n
wireless networks
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| title_full_unstemmed | A reliable A-MSDU frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n
wireless networks
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| title_short | A reliable A-MSDU frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n
wireless networks
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| title_sort | reliable a-msdu frame aggregation scheme in 802.11n
wireless networks |
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