A New Channel-Aware Rate Adaptation in High Speed WLANs

Navrati SAXENA  Abhishek ROY 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E92-B  No.6  pp.2345-2348
Publication Date: 2009/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications
Keyword: 
rate adaptation,  IEEE 802.11n,  MCS,  prototype,  implementation,  simulation, 

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Summary: 
In this letter we propose an advanced rate adaptation algorithm that intelligently uses the channel statistics to make fast and efficient selection of transmission rates. Our implementation and simulation results prove that the proposed strategy achieves major latency and throughput improvements on 802.11n products and existing related protocols. The entire work is on a software module, thus providing adaptability, cost-effectiveness, with no hardware changes.