Presentation 2018-10-30
[Poster Presentation] Experimental Investigation of Static Channel Bonding Performance 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 for frame transmission, is one of the promising way for improving throughput performance in IEEE802.11ac wireless LANs. However, channel bonding technology leads to co-channel interference with other access points (APs) within the bonded channels. In our previous study, we investigated transmission performance of several commercially-available 802.11ac APs. As a result, we clarified three communication procedures from difference in method of implementation of Request To Send (RTS) / Clear To Send (CTS) or not. Furthermore, we investigated the impact of RTS/CTS on transmission performance by conducting experiments where two APs using RTS/CTS are competing in a bonded channels. However, we have not investigated transmission performance in the case that APs with different transmission procedures compete with each other in a bonded channels. Therefore, in this study, we conducted experiments using real WLAN products. Then, we compared and evaluated the communication performance in the case that two APs with different transmission procedures compete in the same channel. As a result, we showed that the AP employing CTS-to-self doesn’t set duration time in CTS frames, thereby the communication performance of the AP using RTS/CTS in channel bonding degrades due to frequent collisions in conflict channel. On the other hand, since AP not using RTS/CTS dynamically adjusts the number of data frames for each transmission opportunity to avoid frame collisions, we confirmed that the communication performance can be relatively maintained even under the competitive environment.
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Keyword(in English) IEEE802.11ac / Channel bonding / Static channel bonding / Access Point (AP) / RTS/CTS frame / CTS-to-self
Paper # SR2018-58
Date of Issue 2018-10-23 (SR)

Conference Information
Committee SR
Conference Date 2018/10/30(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Mandarin Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
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Topics (in English) SmartCom2018
Chair Kenta Umebayashi(Tokyo Univ. of Agric. and Tech.)
Vice Chair Masayuki Ariyoshi(NEC) / Suguru Kameda(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Masayuki Ariyoshi(NICT) / Suguru Kameda(ATR)
Assistant Gia Khanh Tran(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Syusuke Narieda(Mie Univ.) / Koji Ohshima(Kozo Keikaku Engineering) / Mai Ohta(Fukuoka Univ.) / Teppei Oyama(Fujitsu Lab.)

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Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) [Poster Presentation] Experimental Investigation of Static Channel Bonding Performance in Competitive Environment
Sub Title (in English) Impact of Different MAC Procedures in 802.11ac
Keyword(1) IEEE802.11ac
Keyword(2) Channel bonding
Keyword(3) Static channel bonding
Keyword(4) Access Point (AP)
Keyword(5) RTS/CTS frame
Keyword(6) CTS-to-self
1st Author's Name Kazuki Fujii
1st Author's Affiliation Fukuoka Institute of Technilogy(FIT)
2nd Author's Name Hitomi Tamura
2nd Author's Affiliation Fukuoka Institute of Technilogy(FIT)
3rd Author's Name Daiki Nobayashi
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyusyu Institute of Technilogy(Kyutech)
4th Author's Name Kazuya Tsukamoto
4th Author's Affiliation Kyusyu Institute of Technilogy(Kyutech)
Date 2018-10-30
Paper # SR2018-58
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) SR-274
Page pp.pp.1-2(SR),
#Pages 2
Date of Issue 2018-10-23 (SR)