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Block Ack-based Dynamic A-MPDU Aggregation Scheme in IEEE 802.11n WLAN

IEEE 802.11n WLAN에서 블록 승인 기반의 동적 A-MPDU 집적 방법

  • Shin, In Cheol (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, College of IT, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Hoi (Dept. of Electronic Engineering, College of IT, Kangwon National University)
  • 신인철 (강원대학교 IT대학 전기전자공학부 전자통신공학과) ;
  • 김동회 (강원대학교 IT대학 전기전자공학부 전자통신공학과)
  • Received : 2014.05.29
  • Accepted : 2014.07.21
  • Published : 2014.07.30
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Abstract

By adopting the MAC(Media Access Control) protocol which enables to pack multiple MPDUs(MAC-level Protocol Data Units) into a single PPDU(Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit), IEEE 802.11n WLAN supports high throughput. Up to now, there have been a lot of existing channel information-based A-MPDU schemes dynamically determining the number of MSDUs according to the wireless channel condition information which is sent from the receiver to sender. However, the channel information-based scheme has a serious drawback having a high system overhead due to the frequent channel feedback information. To reduce the system overhead, the proposed BA-base dynamic A-MPDU scheme simply chooses the number of MSDUs to be retransmitted by not the frequent channel feedback information but the BA signal representing whether MPSUs belonging to the A-MPDU are received or not. Through NS-2(Network Simulator-2), we found that the proposed scheme had higher throughput and lower packet error rate than the existing fixed A-MPDU scheme.

IEEE 802.11n 무선랜은 여러 개의 MPDU를 집적하여 하나의 PPDU(Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit)로 전송하는 A-MPDU(Aggregate - MAC Protocol Data Unit) 방식의 매체 접근 제어(MAC: Media Access Control) 프로토콜을 사용하여 높은 처리율을 지원하고 있다. 기존에는 채널 환경에 따라 집적하는 MPDU의 개수를 동적으로 바꿔주는 채널 정보 기반의 A-MPDU 방식이 많이 연구되었지만 이러한 방식들은 수신자로 부터의 복잡한 무선 채널 정보를 이용하기 때문에 시스템 오버헤드가 증가한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 복잡한 무선 채널 정보를 이용하지 않고 A-MPDU내의 MPDU 수신여부를 나타내는 BA 신호를 이용해 작은 오버헤드를 가지고도 A-MPDU내의 집적된 MPDU의 개수를 동적으로 결정하는 BA 기반 동적 A-MPDU 방식을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 NS-2(Network Simulator-2)에 의한 모의실험을 통하여 제안된 방식이 기존의 고정 A-MPDU 방식보다 더 높은 처리율과 더 낮은 패킷 오류율을 가짐을 확인하였다.

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