In order to enhance the area throughput of next generation wireless local area network(WLAN)in high density scenarios,orthogonal frequency division multiple access(OFDMA)has been adopted as one of the key technologies...In order to enhance the area throughput of next generation wireless local area network(WLAN)in high density scenarios,orthogonal frequency division multiple access(OFDMA)has been adopted as one of the key technologies in the next generation WLAN communication standards.However,the performance of the existing media access control(MAC)degrades significantly under unsaturated services.Therefore,this paper proposes a multi-user parallel contention channel MAC(MU-MAC)based on unsaturated services,which can effectively reduce the channel access conflict and improve the OFDMA access efficiency of cluster member nodes.On this basis,MU-MAC is enhanced for the spatial clustering group(SCG)formation protocol and support for the unsaturated service characteristics.Further,the optimal access radius when the service is in a non-saturated state is analyzed to make the relevant theoretical analysis more generally,and the expressions for the throughput and area throughput of the proposed protocol are modeled and derived.The simulation results verify the correctness of the theoretical analysis and the efficiency of the protocol performance.The results show that MU-MAC outperforms IEEE 802.11ax and OMAX protocol in area throughput by 40.72%and 104.15%,respectively.展开更多
基金supported by the 13th Five-Year National Key Research and Development Plan of China (2016YFD0300609)the Outstanding Science and Technology Innovation Talents Program of Henan province (184200510008)+4 种基金Modern Agricultural Technology System Project of Henan Province (S2010-01G04)the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFD0301105)the National Natural Science Foundations of CHINA (Grant No. 61501373, No. 61771390, No. 61771392, No. 61871322, and No. 61271279)the Henan Province Key Scientific and Technological Project (182102110291 and 222102110234)Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (232300420186)
文摘In order to enhance the area throughput of next generation wireless local area network(WLAN)in high density scenarios,orthogonal frequency division multiple access(OFDMA)has been adopted as one of the key technologies in the next generation WLAN communication standards.However,the performance of the existing media access control(MAC)degrades significantly under unsaturated services.Therefore,this paper proposes a multi-user parallel contention channel MAC(MU-MAC)based on unsaturated services,which can effectively reduce the channel access conflict and improve the OFDMA access efficiency of cluster member nodes.On this basis,MU-MAC is enhanced for the spatial clustering group(SCG)formation protocol and support for the unsaturated service characteristics.Further,the optimal access radius when the service is in a non-saturated state is analyzed to make the relevant theoretical analysis more generally,and the expressions for the throughput and area throughput of the proposed protocol are modeled and derived.The simulation results verify the correctness of the theoretical analysis and the efficiency of the protocol performance.The results show that MU-MAC outperforms IEEE 802.11ax and OMAX protocol in area throughput by 40.72%and 104.15%,respectively.
