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Implementation and Evaluation of IEEE 802.11ax Channel Sounding Frame Exchange in ns-3

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Jingyuan Zhang,

Stefano Avallone,

Douglas M. BloughAuthors Info & Claims

WNS3 '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on ns-3

Pages 10 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1145/3592149.3592152

Published: 28 June 2023 Publication History

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To enable extremely high throughput in wireless local area networks (WLANs), new features including Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO), beamforming techniques, and coordinated beamforming among multiple access points (APs) have been considered in current and future standards. All of these features require stations to measure the wireless channel and feed back channel state information (CSI) to APs. However, it is still impractical to evaluate system-level performance of these techniques in ns-3 since the functionality of CSI acquisition is missing. In this paper, an ns-3 implementation of channel sounding process in medium access control (MAC) layer based on IEEE 802.11ax is described. Simulation results are presented to show the overhead of the channel sounding process and provide a first step toward evaluating the impact of channel sounding on network performance.

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DOI:10.1145/3592149

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Golubev YTutelian SLoginov VKhorov E(2023)Reducing Duration of the MU-MIMO CSI Acquisition Procedure in Wi-Fi Networks With OFDMA2023 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN)10.1109/CSCN60443.2023.10453164(395-400)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2023
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