Design and implementation of MAC layer in very-high-throughput WLAN

Author

Bingning Zhu ; Guixia Kang ; Ningbo Zhang ; Xiaoshuang Liu ; Yuncheng Liu

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Wireless Technol. Applic., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

398

Lastpage

401

Abstract

This paper studies the design and implementation of MAC (Media Access Control) layer in very-high-throughput WLAN(Wireless Local Area Network), which is based on the latest IEEE 802.11ac protocol. As an intermediate layer between service layer and physical layer, MAC layer is responsible for deployment and reorganization of data packets during sending and receiving process. Meanwhile, system implementation is successfully improved in both throughput and QoS (Quality of Service) aspects. Implementation results show that the MAC layer can deal with data beyond Gbps (Gigabit) stably, and deliver real-time HD (high-definition) videos in QoS aspect, while block error rate (BLER) being controlled within 10^-3.

Keywords

access protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11ac protocol; MAC layer; block error rate; data packets; media access control layer; physical layer; quality of service; service layer; very-high-throughput WLAN; wireless local area network; Conferences; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication; 802.11ac; MAC layer; WLAN; very-high-throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM), 2014 9th International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CHINACOM.2014.7054326

Filename

7054326