Title :
An efficient software/hardware architecture for the IEEE 802.11n block ACK mechanism
Author :
Liu, Heng ; Wang, Yan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Block ACK mechanism has been proposed in IEEE 802.11e to improve medium access control (MAC) layer performance. It is also a promising technique in the recent draft of the 802.11n MAC. In this paper, we proposed an efficient software/hardware architecture for the IEEE 802.11n HT (high throughput) immediate block ACK mechanism. This architecture takes into account the effects of both performance and implementation cost. We present experimental results to compare performance of the HT immediate block ACK method and the legacy normal ACK and show that our scheme is efficient.
Keywords :
automatic repeat request; software architecture; wireless LAN; ARQ mechanism; IEEE 802.11; MAC layer performance; WLAN; automatic repeat request; block ACK mechanism; medium access control; software-hardware architecture; wireless local area networks; Automatic repeat request; Computer architecture; Costs; Delay; Hardware; Media Access Protocol; Software architecture; Software performance; Throughput; Wireless LAN; 802.11n High Throughput; Block ACK; MAC; hardware architecture; software architecture;
Conference_Titel :
Communication Systems, 2008. ICCS 2008. 11th IEEE Singapore International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2423-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2424-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICCS.2008.4737355
