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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTC.2010.17C.6.485

Cooperative Frame Aggregation in IEEE 802.11n Wireless Networks  

Song, Tae-Won (고려대학교 전기전자전파공학부)
Pack, Sang-Heon (고려대학교 전기전자전파공학부)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartC / v.17C, no.6, 2010 , pp. 485-490 More about this Journal
Abstract
IEEE 802.11n supports two frame aggregation schemes, aggregation for MAC service data unit (A-MSDU) and aggregation for MAC protocol data unit (A-MPDU), to improve throughput at the MAC layer. In this paper, we propose a cooperative frame aggregation (CoFA), which can recover erroneous frames in a cooperative manner based on A-MPDU. Specifically, CoFA receive multiple frames from direct and relay paths, and combined multiple frames jointly. Numerical results show that CoFA outperforms direct transmission and relay transmission over diverse channel conditions.
Keywords
Frame Aggregation; IEEE 802.11n; A-MSDU; A-MPDU;
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