2 research outputs found
Analytical Models for Energy Consumption in Infrastructure WLAN STAs Carrying TCP Traffic
We develop analytical models for estimating the energy spent by stations
(STAs) in infrastructure WLANs when performing TCP controlled file downloads.
We focus on the energy spent in radio communication when the STAs are in the
Continuously Active Mode (CAM), or in the static Power Save Mode (PSM). Our
approach is to develop accurate models for obtaining the fraction of times the
STA radios spend in idling, receiving and transmitting. We discuss two traffic
models for each mode of operation: (i) each STA performs one large file
download, and (ii) the STAs perform short file transfers. We evaluate the rate
of STA energy expenditure with long file downloads, and show that static PSM is
worse than just using CAM. For short file downloads we compute the number of
file downloads that can be completed with given battery capacity, and show that
PSM performs better than CAM for this case. We provide a validation of our
analytical models using the NS-2 simulator. In contrast to earlier work on
analytical modeling of PSM, our models that capture the details of the
interactions between the 802.11 MAC in PSM and certain aspects of TCP
Survey and Performance Evaluation of the Upcoming Next Generation WLAN Standard - IEEE 802.11ax
With the ever-increasing demand for wireless traffic and quality of serives
(QoS), wireless local area networks (WLANs) have developed into one of the most
dominant wireless networks that fully influence human life. As the most widely
used WLANs standard, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
802.11 will release the upcoming next generation WLANs standard amendment: IEEE
802.11ax. This article comprehensively surveys and analyzes the application
scenarios, technical requirements, standardization process, key technologies,
and performance evaluations of IEEE 802.11ax. Starting from the technical
objectives and requirements of IEEE 802.11ax, this article pays special
attention to high-dense deployment scenarios. After that, the key technologies
of IEEE 802.11ax, including the physical layer (PHY) enhancements, multi-user
(MU) medium access control (MU-MAC), spatial reuse (SR), and power efficiency
are discussed in detail, covering both standardization technologies as well as
the latest academic studies. Furthermore, performance requirements of IEEE
802.11ax are evaluated via a newly proposed systems and link-level integrated
simulation platform (SLISP). Simulations results confirm that IEEE 802.11ax
significantly improves the user experience in high-density deployment, while
successfully achieves the average per user throughput requirement in project
authorization request (PAR) by four times compared to the legacy IEEE 802.11.
Finally, potential advancement beyond IEEE 802.11ax are discussed to complete
this holistic study on the latest IEEE 802.11ax. To the best of our knowledge,
this article is the first study to directly investigate and analyze the latest
stable version of IEEE 802.11ax, and the first work to thoroughly and deeply
evaluate the compliance of the performance requirements of IEEE 802.11ax.Comment: 155 pages, 53 figure