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IEEE 802.11n MAC Mechanisms for High Throughput: a Performance Evaluation

Authors:
Miguel A García
M. Angeles Santos
José Villalón

Keywords: IEEE 802.11n; aggregation; block ACK; reverse direction

Abstract:
Nowadays IEEE 802.11 standard is the most widely used one in wireless LAN (WLAN) technology. One of the key reasons is the continuous amendments presented by the IEEE 802.11 working group. One of these amendments (IEEE 802.11n) was approved to enhance 802.11 for higher throughput operation. IEEE 802.11n is an ongoing next-generation wireless LAN standard that supports a very high speed connection with more than 100 Mb/s data throughput measured at the medium access control layer. In this paper we examine the major improvements introduced by IEEE 802.11n MAC: aggregation, block acknowledgement, and reverse direction. We show the impact of each parameter in the network performance.

Pages: 32 to 37

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: May 22, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-133-5

Location: Venice/Mestre, Italy

Dates: from May 22, 2011 to May 27, 2011