An Efficient Software/Hardware Architecture for the IEEE 802.11n Block ACK Mechanism

摘要：

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.

关键词： MAC 802.11n High Throughput Block ACK software architecture hardware architecture

作者: Heng Liu Yan Wang

作者单位: Department of Electronic Engineering,Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing 100081,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Communications Systems(第11届电子和电气工程师协会国际通信系统会议)(IEEE ICCS 2008)

会议地点: 广州

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-11-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）