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A Novel Low-Overhead Channel Sounding Protocol for Downlink Multi-User MIMO in IEEE 802.11ax WLAN
Toshihisa NABETANI Narendar MADHAVAN Hiroki MORI Tsuguhide AOKI
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E101-B
No.3
pp.924-932 Publication Date: 2018/03/01 Publicized: 2017/09/15 Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2017EBP3106 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Terrestrial Wireless Communication/Broadcasting Technologies Keyword: channel sounding protocol, DL-MU-MIMO, IEEE 802.11ax, wireless LANs,
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Summary:
The next generation wireless LAN standard IEEE 802.11ax aims to provide improved throughput performance in dense environments. We have proposed an efficient channel sounding mechanism for DL-MU-MIMO that has been adopted as a new sounding protocol in the 802.11ax standard. In this paper, we evaluate the overhead reduction in the 802.11ax sounding protocol compared with the 802.11ac sounding protocol. Sounding is frequently performed to obtain accurate channel information from the associated stations in order to improve overall system throughput. However, there is a trade-off between accurate channel information and the overhead incurred due to frequent sounding. Therefore, the sounding interval is an important factor that determines system throughput in DL-MU-MIMO transmission. We also evaluate the effect of sounding interval on the system throughput performance using both sounding protocols and provide a comparative analysis of the performance improvement.
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