Wireless Communications
Fine-grained network time synchronization using reference broadcasts
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Idle sense: an optimal access method for high throughput and fairness in rate diverse wireless LANs
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Fundamentals of wireless communication
Fundamentals of wireless communication
Analysis of a campus-wide wireless network
Wireless Networks
Comparison of Multichannel MAC Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
A case for adapting channel width in wireless networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Learning to share: narrowband-friendly wideband networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Sora: high performance software radio using general purpose multi-core processors
NSDI'09 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation
Softspeak: making VoIP play well in existing 802.11 deployments
NSDI'09 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation
SMACK: a SMart ACKnowledgment scheme for broadcast messages in wireless networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
Frequency-aware rate adaptation and MAC protocols
Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
IEEE 802.11n MAC frame aggregation mechanisms for next-generation high-throughput WLANs
IEEE Wireless Communications
Computationally efficient bandwidth allocation and power control for OFDMA
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Adaptive resource allocation in multiuser OFDM systems with proportional rate constraints
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Opportunistic transmission scheduling with resource-sharing constraints in wireless networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Semi-Random Backoff: Towards resource reservation for channel access in wireless LANs
ICNP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols. ICNP 2009
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With the increasing of physical-layer (PHY) data rate in modern wireless local area networks (WLANs) (e.g., 802.11n), the overhead of media access control (MAC) progressively degrades data throughput efficiency. This trend reflects a fundamental aspect of the current MAC protocol, which allocates the channel as a single resource at a time. This paper argues that, in a high data rate WLAN, the channel should be divided into separate subchannels whose width is commensurate with the PHY data rate and typical frame size. Multiple stations can then contend for and use subchannels simultaneously according to their traffic demands, thereby increasing overall efficiency. We introduce FICA, a fine-grained channel access method that embodies this approach to media access using two novel techniques. First, it proposes a new PHY architecture based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) that retains orthogonality among subchannels while relying solely on the coordination mechanisms in existing WLAN, carrier sensing and broadcasting. Second, FICA employs a frequency-domain contention method that uses physical-layer Request to Send/Clear to Send (RTS/CTS) signaling and frequency domain backoff to efficiently coordinate subchannel access. We have implemented FICA, both MAC and PHY layers, using a software radio platform, and our experiments demonstrate the feasibility of the FICA design. Furthermore, our simulation results show FICA can improve the efficiency of WLANs from a few percent to 600% compared to existing 802.11.