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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: A New Aggregation Based Scheduling Method for Rapidly Changing IEEE 802.11ac Wireless Channels

  AUTHORS: Oran Sharon, Yaron Alpert

  KEYWORDS: 802.11ac, Aggregation, Scheduling, Link Adaptation, Reliability

  JOURNAL NAME: Wireless Sensor Network, Vol.8 No.8, August 5, 2016

  ABSTRACT: In this paper we suggest a novel idea to improve the Throughput of a rapidly changing WiFi channel by exploiting the standard aggregation schemes in IEEE 802.11ac networks. The idea is based on blindly transmitting several copies of the first 4 MAC Protocol Data Units (MPDU) in the Transmission Window. This increases the probability that the window moves forward, enabling the transmission of new MPDUs and resulting in increased Throughput. It turns out that transmitting 2 copies of each of the first 4 MPDUs yields the best Throughput gain, in the order of 50% - 60% in PHY rates of 1.3 - 3.5 Gbps and few hundreds of bytes MPDUs. The proposed idea has advantage over Link Adaptation since it reduces the actual PHY rate only for the transmission of few MPDUs while Link Adaptation reduces the PHY rate for all the transmissions.