Presentation 2019-03-04
Experimental Evaluation on Effectiveness of IEEE802.11ac Channel Bonding in Competitive Environment
Kazuki Fujii, Hitomi Tamura, Daiki Nobayashi, Kazuya Tsukamoto,
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Abstract(in English) Channel bonding technology, which bundles multiple adjacent channels, is one of the promising way for improving throughput performance in IEEE 802.11ac wireless LANs. However, the device using channel bonding would be highly likely to be exposed to severe competition with other devices. In our prior work, we clarified that there are three types of communication procedures of IEEE 802.11ac AP employing channel bonding due to different implementation among vendors, such as extended RTS/CTS (optional function). Then we clarified the communication performance employing static channel bonding with RTS/CTS in the case where multiple communication with different procedures coexist within channel width. We have observed that an AP using CTS-to-self actually exist, but its communication performance is still unclear in case where the CTS-to-self AP employing channel bonding is competed with another AP without channel bonding in the proximity. Therefore, in this paper, we investigate its behavior in terms of channel bonding to clarify its type, and thus we demonstrated that the AP that we used in our experiments implements dynamic channel bonding, and the impact of competition between AP with channel bonding and that without channel bonding can be alleviated only when they work on the same channel, i.e., primary channel of the AP employing channel bonding.
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Keyword(in English) IEEE802.11ac / Dynamic channel bonding / CTS-to-self / RTS/CTS
Paper # NS2018-207
Date of Issue 2019-02-25 (NS)

Conference Information
Committee IN / NS
Conference Date 2019/3/4(2days)
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Place (in English) Okinawa Convention Center
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Topics (in English) General
Chair Takuji Kishida(NTT-AT) / Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT)
Vice Chair Kenji Ishida(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Akihiro Nakao(Univ. of Tokyo)
Secretary Kenji Ishida(KDDI Research) / Akihiro Nakao(KDDI Research)
Assistant / Kenichi Kashibuchi(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Information Networks / Technical Committee on Network Systems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Experimental Evaluation on Effectiveness of IEEE802.11ac Channel Bonding in Competitive Environment
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) IEEE802.11ac
Keyword(2) Dynamic channel bonding
Keyword(3) CTS-to-self
Keyword(4) RTS/CTS
1st Author's Name Kazuki Fujii
1st Author's Affiliation Fukuoka Institute of Technology(FIT)
2nd Author's Name Hitomi Tamura
2nd Author's Affiliation Fukuoka Institute of Technology(FIT)
3rd Author's Name Daiki Nobayashi
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyusyu Institute of Technology(Kyutech)
4th Author's Name Kazuya Tsukamoto
4th Author's Affiliation Kyusyu Institute of Technology(Kyutech)
Date 2019-03-04
Paper # NS2018-207
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) NS-465
Page pp.pp.81-86(NS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2019-02-25 (NS)