Multi-packet communication by spatial reuse: Application scenarios and open research issues

Author

Babich, F. ; Comisso, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. & Archit., Univ. of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

1-5 July 2013

Firstpage

1308

Lastpage

1313

Abstract

This paper has the objective of identifying the application domain of a particular multi-packet strategy enabled by spatial reuse, which allows the simultaneous coexistence of multiple traffic flows in 802.11 wireless networks and is known as multi-packet communication (MPC). More precisely, this study outlines the differences between MPC and the widely investigated multi-packet reception (MPR) and multi-packet transmission (MPT) techniques, proposing extensions to the existing MPC theoretical models that aim to reliably estimate the throughput, the average successful packet delay, and the drop probability. The presented discussion involves the channel coding rate and the stochastic collision model, which determines the throughput-delay behavior of the network. Moving from the derived results, some open issues are identified as possible topics for the future research in the field of MPC.

Keywords

channel coding; probability; stochastic processes; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; 802.11 wireless network; MPC; MPR; average successful packet delay; channel coding rate; drop probability; multipacket communication; multipacket reception; multipacket transmission; spatial reuse; stochastic collision model; throughput estimation; throughput-delay behavior; traffic flow; Delays; IEEE 802.11n Standard; Peer-to-peer computing; Reliability; Throughput; Wireless networks; IEEE 802.11; Wireless network; medium access control; multi-packet communication; spatial reuse;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2013 9th International

Conference_Location

Sardinia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2479-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWCMC.2013.6583745

Filename

6583745