TITLE:
Scheduling Strategies and Throughput Optimization for the Downlink for IEEE 802.11ax and IEEE 802.11ac Based Networks
AUTHORS:
Oran Sharon, Yaron Alpert
KEYWORDS:
IEEE 802.11ax, IEEE 802.11ac, Throughput, Single User, MU-MIMO, OFDMA
JOURNAL NAME:
Wireless Sensor Network,
Vol.9 No.10,
October
28,
2017
ABSTRACT:
The new IEEE 802.11ax standard is aimed to serve many users while enabling
every station to transmit a consistent stream of data without interruption. In
this paper we evaluate the upper bound on the throughput of a Downlink
IEEE 802.11ax channel using the Single User (SU) mode and using the Multi
User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) and Orthogonal Frequency
Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) mode. We compare between
IEEE 802.11ax and IEEE 802.11ac for the case of 1, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 stations
in different Modulation/Coding schemes (MCS) and different transmission
windows’ sizes, 64 and 256 frames in IEEE 802.11ax. IEEE 802.11ax outperforms
IEEE 802.11ac in the SU and MU modes by 52% and 74% in a reliable
channel respectively, while in an unreliable channel the improvements are by
59% and 103% respectively. Also, in terms of the access delay, the advantage
of IEEE 802.11ax increases as the number of stations increases.