TY - GEN
T1 - BeaconRider
T2 - 27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2019
AU - Lee, Hyunjoong
AU - Kim, Jungjun
AU - Joo, Changhee
AU - Bahk, Saewoong
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIT) (No. 2017R1E1A1A01074358), in part by Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2018-11-1864, Scalable Spectrum Sharing for Beyond 5G Communication), and in part by the NRF grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. NRF-2017R1E1A1A03070524).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - The explosion of mobile traffic volume has led to dense deployment of IEEE 802.11 WLANs. As a consequence, periodic beacon transmissions can overwhelm the air-time, leading to significant air-time depletion for data transmissions. In this work, we develop an opportunistic air-time sharing scheme, named BeaconRider, that facilitates simultaneous data and beacon transmissions aimed at improving spectrum efficiency in dense network environments. The proposed method works for downlink communication and allows access points (APs) to coordinate with each other in a distributed manner to exploit opportunities provided by the capture effect. Our protocol is backward compatible with legacy 802.11 APs. Through experiments with a prototype implementation using off-the-shelf IEEE 802.11n dongles as well as extensive ns-3 simulation, we show that the proposed method achieves substantial performance gains that increase with the number of APs.
AB - The explosion of mobile traffic volume has led to dense deployment of IEEE 802.11 WLANs. As a consequence, periodic beacon transmissions can overwhelm the air-time, leading to significant air-time depletion for data transmissions. In this work, we develop an opportunistic air-time sharing scheme, named BeaconRider, that facilitates simultaneous data and beacon transmissions aimed at improving spectrum efficiency in dense network environments. The proposed method works for downlink communication and allows access points (APs) to coordinate with each other in a distributed manner to exploit opportunities provided by the capture effect. Our protocol is backward compatible with legacy 802.11 APs. Through experiments with a prototype implementation using off-the-shelf IEEE 802.11n dongles as well as extensive ns-3 simulation, we show that the proposed method achieves substantial performance gains that increase with the number of APs.
KW - Air-time sharing
KW - Beacon frame
KW - Capture effect
KW - High-density WLANs
KW - Interference mitigation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074969762&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888044
DO - 10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888044
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85074969762
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP
BT - 27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2019
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 7 October 2019 through 10 October 2019
ER -