Capacity Analysis of Enhanced MAC in IEEE 802.11n

Lin X.  Cai; Xinhua  Ling; Xuemin Shen; Jon W.  Mark; Hua  Long

1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Capacity Analysis of Enhanced MAC in IEEE 802.11n

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    author={Lin X.  Cai and Xinhua  Ling and Xuemin Shen and Jon W.  Mark and Hua  Long},
    title={Capacity Analysis of Enhanced MAC in IEEE 802.11n},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2007},
    month={4},
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    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344780}
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Lin X. Cai
Xinhua Ling
Xuemin Shen
Jon W. Mark
Hua Long
Year: 2007
Capacity Analysis of Enhanced MAC in IEEE 802.11n
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344780

Lin X. Cai¹, Xinhua Ling¹, Xuemin Shen¹, Jon W. Mark¹, Hua Long²

1: Centre for Wireless Communications
2: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada, Department of Communication

Abstract

An analytical model for studying the access point (AP)-bottleneck effect of infrastructure wireless local area networks (WLANs) is developed. We extend the analytical model to investigate the performance of some enhanced MAC mechanisms in IEEE 802.11n. Two new aggregation schemes are also proposed and compared with previous schemes. We show that these MAC enhancements can effectively improve the network capacity by not only reducing the protocol overheads, but also smoothing the AP-bottleneck effect. Voice capacity of an IEEE 802.11n WLAN using different MAC mechanisms are presented as well.

Published: 2007-04-10
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344780