{"title":"Performance Analysis of Compressed Block Acknowledgment in IEEE 802.11ax","authors":"Jan Friedrich, S. Günther, C. Lindemann","doi":"10.1145/3345770.3356735","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"IEEE 802.11ax utilizes frame aggregation and compressed block acknowledgements to reduce the MAC overhead and to increase the goodput. We analyze IEEE 802.11ax frame aggregation in error-prone environments and propose to adaptively limit the MPDU size. This results in MAC frames that are still small enough to have a high transmission success rate. A performance study using the discrete-event simulator ns-3 illustrates the benefits of the proposed approach. We find that a high retransmission rate results in a low utilization of the acknowledgment window and discuss its major negative impact on the goodput. Our delay-related studies further show that MAC mechanisms like strict ordering contribute disproportionally to increased latency due to head-of-line blocking, especially under high error rate conditions. We conclude that for decreased delays, smaller MPDUs are beneficial.","PeriodicalId":285517,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3345770.3356735","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
IEEE 802.11ax utilizes frame aggregation and compressed block acknowledgements to reduce the MAC overhead and to increase the goodput. We analyze IEEE 802.11ax frame aggregation in error-prone environments and propose to adaptively limit the MPDU size. This results in MAC frames that are still small enough to have a high transmission success rate. A performance study using the discrete-event simulator ns-3 illustrates the benefits of the proposed approach. We find that a high retransmission rate results in a low utilization of the acknowledgment window and discuss its major negative impact on the goodput. Our delay-related studies further show that MAC mechanisms like strict ordering contribute disproportionally to increased latency due to head-of-line blocking, especially under high error rate conditions. We conclude that for decreased delays, smaller MPDUs are beneficial.