Frame aggregation in central controlled 802.11 WLANs The latency versus throughput tradeoff
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Frame aggregation is widely used in 802.11 WLANs in order to provide a significant throughput improvement. However, the latency increase that comes as a counterpart can reduce the quality experienced by the users of applications with real-time constraints. This letter explores the throughput versus latency tradeoff in the context of central controlled solutions (e.g. SDWN-based). First, a scenario with a single Access Point (AP) is used to illustrate the problem and to propose two possible solutions. Then, a centralized algorithm that dynamically (de)activates aggregation is tested in a scenario with a number of APs. The results show that aggregation arameters can be tuned in order to keep latency in low levels, with a low throughput penalty
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TNO Identifier
954821
ISSN
10897798
Source
IEEE Communications Letters, 21(11), pp. 2500-2503.
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Article nr.
8013762
Pages
2500-2503
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