9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Design and Implementation of MAC Layer in Very-high-throughput WLAN

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256329,
        author={Bingning Zhu and Guixia Kang and Ningbo Zhang and Xiaoshuang Liu and Yuncheng Liu},
        title={Design and Implementation of MAC Layer in  Very-high-throughput WLAN},
        proceedings={9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2015},
        month={1},
        keywords={wlan 80211ac mac layer very-high-throughput},
        doi={10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256329}
    }
    
  • Bingning Zhu
    Guixia Kang
    Ningbo Zhang
    Xiaoshuang Liu
    Yuncheng Liu
    Year: 2015
    Design and Implementation of MAC Layer in Very-high-throughput WLAN
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256329
Bingning Zhu1,*, Guixia Kang1, Ningbo Zhang1, Xiaoshuang Liu1, Yuncheng Liu2
  • 1: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,
  • 2: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
*Contact email: zhubingning123@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper studies the design and implementation of MAC(Media Access Control)layer in very–high-throughput WLAN(Wireless Local Area Network), which is based on the latest IEEE802.11ac protocol. As an intermediate layer between service layer and physical layer, MAC layer is responsible for deployment and reorganization of data packets during sending and receiving process. Meanwhile, system implementation is successfully improved in both throughput and QoS(Quality of Service) aspects. Implementation results show that the MAC layer can deal with data beyond Gbps(Gigabit) stably, and deliver real-time HD (high-definition) videos in QoS aspect, while block error rate(BLER) being controlled within 10-3.