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High-Efficient Frame Aggregation with Frame Size Adaptation for Downlink MU-MIMO Wireless LANs Yoshihide NOMURA Kazuo MORI Hideo KOBAYASHI Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E99-B No.7 pp.1584-1592 Publication Date: 2016/07/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1345 DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2015EBP3474 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Wireless Communication Technologies Keyword: WLANs, IEEE 802.11, MU-MIMO, frame aggregation, user scheduling, frame size adaptation, transmission error, Full Text: PDF>>
Summary: This paper investigates a frame aggregation (FA) technique in the medium access control (MAC) layer for downlink multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) channels in wireless local area networks (WLANs), and proposes a high-efficient FA scheme that ehances system performance: transmission performance and fairness in communication between mobile terminals (MTs). The proposed FA scheme employs novel criteria for selecting receiving MTs and wireless frame setting with a frame size adaptation mechanism for MU-MIMO transmissions. The proposed receiving MT selection gives higher priority to the MTs expecting higher throughput in the next MU-MIMO transmission and having large amount transmission data while reducing signaling overhead, leading to improvements in system throughput and fairness in communication. The proposed wireless frame setting, which employs hybrid A-MSDU/A-MPDU FA, achieves frame error rate (FER) better than the requirement from communication services by using A-MSDU frame size adaptation. Through system-level simulation, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is validated for downlink MU-MIMO channels in WLANs. | |||||
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