Research Article
Exploiting the Capture Effect on DSC and BSS Color in Dense IEEE 802.11ax Deployments
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/3067665.3067672, author={Ioannis Selinis and Konstantinos Katsaros and Seiamak Vahid and Rahim Tafazolli}, title={Exploiting the Capture Effect on DSC and BSS Color in Dense IEEE 802.11ax Deployments}, proceedings={Proceedings of the Workshop on ns-3}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={WNS3}, year={2017}, month={7}, keywords={WLAN IEEE 802.11ax DSC BSS Color Physical Layer Capture PLC}, doi={10.1145/3067665.3067672} }- Ioannis Selinis
Konstantinos Katsaros
Seiamak Vahid
Rahim Tafazolli
Year: 2017
Exploiting the Capture Effect on DSC and BSS Color in Dense IEEE 802.11ax Deployments
WNS3
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3067665.3067672
Abstract
Future wireless local area networks (WLANs) are expected to serve thousands of users in diverse environments. To address the new challenges that WLANs will face, and to overcome the limitations that previous IEEE standards introduced, a new IEEE 802.11 amend-ment is under development. IEEE 802.11ax aims to enhance spec-trum e†ciency in a dense deployment; hence system throughput improves. Dynamic Sensitivity Control (DSC) and BSS Color are the main schemes under consideration in IEEE 802.11ax for improving spectrum e†ciency. In this paper, we evaluate DSC and BSS Color schemes when physical layer capture (PLC) is modelled. PLC refers to the case that a receiver successfully decodes the stronger frame when collision occurs. It is shown, that PLC could potentially lead to fairness issues and higher throughput in speciÿc cases. We study PLC in a small and large scale scenario, and show that PLC could also improve fairness in speciÿc scenarios.