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Out-of-Band Signaling Scheme for High Speed Wireless LANs

2007

In recent years, the physical layer data rate provided by 802.11 Wireless LANs has dramatically increased thanks to significant advances in the modulation and coding techniques employed. However, previous studies show that the 802.11 MAC operation, namely the distributed coordination function (DCF), represents a limiting factor: the throughput efficiency drops as the channel bit rate increases, and a throughput upper limit does indeed exist when the channel bit rate goes to infinite high. These findings indicate that the performance of the DCF protocol will not be efficiently improved by merely increasing the channel bit rate. This paper shows that the DCF performance may significantly bene…

Computer scienceComputer network performanceWireless LANThroughputDistributed coordination functionBackward compatibilityIEEE 802.11Packet switchingWireless lanWireless LAN Throughput Bit rate Physical layer Modulation coding Access protocols Content management Signal design Media Access Protocol Performance analysisElectrical and Electronic EngineeringIEEE 802.11Settore ING-INF/03 - Telecomunicazionibusiness.industryApplied MathematicsComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKSPhysical layerCode rateComputer Science ApplicationsComputer network performance; IEEE 802.11; Wireless LANBurst switchingModulationOut-of-band managementbusinessCommunication channelComputer networkIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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Architectures and Protocols for Flexible Physical Layers in Wireless Networks

Emerging wireless technologies are characterized by an increasing level of flexibility and programmability, not only in terms of core network functionalities, with the consolidated paradigms of software-defined-networks and function virtualization, but also in terms of radio access functionalities. Although the concept of software-defined PHY and MAC protocols is not new, exploiting flexibility at the lower layers of the protocol stack is not an easy task, because of complexity and performance constraints. Indeed, dealing with software-defined implementations of the radio implies managing complex software routines, often tightly inter-dependent and difficult to reuse, and poses some perform…

Settore ING-INF/03 - TelecomunicazioniOFDM PHY physical layer reconfigurabilitySettore ING-INF/01 - Elettronica
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