{"title":"IEEE 802.11ac下行链路用户复用方案的性能比较:多用户MIMO与帧聚合","authors":"Jiyoung Cha, Hu Jin, B. Jung, D. Sung","doi":"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"IEEE 802.11ac standard has newly adopted a downlink multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (DL-MU-MIMO) scheme. For user multiplexing in downlink WLAN, we can also use a frame aggregation scheme for multiplexing multiple users' data with space-time block coding (STBC) for achieving spatial diversity. We compare the performance of the two downlink user multiplexing schemes: multi-user MIMO and frame aggregation in IEEE 802.11ac. If each user's encoded data stream has a similar length, the multi-user MIMO scheme yields better average throughput than the frame aggregation scheme. On the other hand, if each user's encoded data stream has a different length, the frame aggregation scheme outperforms the multi-user MIMO scheme in terms of average throughput. In a fast-varying channel, the multi-user MIMO scheme yields worse throughput due to the channel feedback overhead, compared to that with the frame aggregation scheme. We also observe that the multi-user frame aggregation scheme with STBC always outperforms a single-user transmission scheme with STBC in terms of average throughput due to enhanced MAC layer efficiency through frame aggregation.","PeriodicalId":329194,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"38","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Performance comparison of downlink user multiplexing schemes in IEEE 802.11ac: Multi-user MIMO vs. frame aggregation\",\"authors\":\"Jiyoung Cha, Hu Jin, B. Jung, D. Sung\",\"doi\":\"10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214021\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"IEEE 802.11ac standard has newly adopted a downlink multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (DL-MU-MIMO) scheme. For user multiplexing in downlink WLAN, we can also use a frame aggregation scheme for multiplexing multiple users' data with space-time block coding (STBC) for achieving spatial diversity. We compare the performance of the two downlink user multiplexing schemes: multi-user MIMO and frame aggregation in IEEE 802.11ac. If each user's encoded data stream has a similar length, the multi-user MIMO scheme yields better average throughput than the frame aggregation scheme. On the other hand, if each user's encoded data stream has a different length, the frame aggregation scheme outperforms the multi-user MIMO scheme in terms of average throughput. In a fast-varying channel, the multi-user MIMO scheme yields worse throughput due to the channel feedback overhead, compared to that with the frame aggregation scheme. We also observe that the multi-user frame aggregation scheme with STBC always outperforms a single-user transmission scheme with STBC in terms of average throughput due to enhanced MAC layer efficiency through frame aggregation.\",\"PeriodicalId\":329194,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)\",\"volume\":\"8 1\",\"pages\":\"0\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.0000,\"publicationDate\":\"2012-04-01\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"38\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214021\",\"RegionNum\":0,\"RegionCategory\":null,\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"\",\"JCRName\":\"\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214021","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Performance comparison of downlink user multiplexing schemes in IEEE 802.11ac: Multi-user MIMO vs. frame aggregation
IEEE 802.11ac standard has newly adopted a downlink multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (DL-MU-MIMO) scheme. For user multiplexing in downlink WLAN, we can also use a frame aggregation scheme for multiplexing multiple users' data with space-time block coding (STBC) for achieving spatial diversity. We compare the performance of the two downlink user multiplexing schemes: multi-user MIMO and frame aggregation in IEEE 802.11ac. If each user's encoded data stream has a similar length, the multi-user MIMO scheme yields better average throughput than the frame aggregation scheme. On the other hand, if each user's encoded data stream has a different length, the frame aggregation scheme outperforms the multi-user MIMO scheme in terms of average throughput. In a fast-varying channel, the multi-user MIMO scheme yields worse throughput due to the channel feedback overhead, compared to that with the frame aggregation scheme. We also observe that the multi-user frame aggregation scheme with STBC always outperforms a single-user transmission scheme with STBC in terms of average throughput due to enhanced MAC layer efficiency through frame aggregation.