Collision-Based Window-Scaled Back-Off Mechanism for Dense Channel Resource Allocation in Future Wi-Fi

Abdul Rehman, Faisal Bashir Hussain, Jawad Tanveer and Amir Haider
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Abdul Rehman: Department of Electrical Engineering, Bahria University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Faisal Bashir Hussain: Department of Computer Science, Bahria University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Jawad Tanveer: School of Optical Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
Amir Haider: School of Intelligent Mechatronics Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-22

Abstract: Wireless local area networks (WLANs), known as Wi-Fi, are widely deployed to meet the enhanced needs of data-centric internet applications, such as wireless docking, unified communications, cloud computing, interactive multimedia gaming, progressive streaming, support of wearable devices, up-link broadcasts and cellular offloading. Wi-Fi networks typically adopt the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF)-based Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA), which uses the Binary Exponential Back-off (BEB) algorithm at the MAC layer mechanism to access channel resources. Currently deployed Wi-Fi networks face huge challenges towards efficient channel access for denser environments due to the blind exponential increase/decrease of a contention window ( C W ) procedure that is inefficient for a higher number of contending stations. Several modifications and amendments have been proposed to improve the performance of the MAC layer channel access based on a fixed or variable C W size. However, a more realistic network density-based channel resource allocation solution is still missing. An efficient channel resource allocation is one of the most critical challenges for future highly dense WLANs, such as High-Efficiency WLAN (HEW). In this paper, we propose a Channel Collision-based Window Scaled Back-off (CWSB) mechanism for channel resource allocation in HEW. In our proposed CWSB, all contending stations select an optimized C W size for each back-off stage for collided or successfully transmitted data frames. We affirm the performance of the proposed CWSB mechanism with the help of an Iterative Discrete Time Markov Chain (I-DTMC) model. This paper evaluates the performance of our proposed CWSB mechanism in HEW Wi-Fi networks using an NS3 simulator in terms of the normalized throughput and channel access delay compared to the state-of-the-art BEB and a recently proposed mechanism.

Keywords: future Wi-Fi network; IEEE 802.11ax; channel access in HEW (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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