Dynamic traffic allocation in IEEE 802.11be multi-Link WLANs
The multi-link operation (MLO) is a key feature of the next IEEE 802.11be Extremely High Throughput amendment. Through its adoption, it is expected to enhance users’ experience by improving throughput rates and latency. However, potential MLO gains are tied to how traffic is distributed across the m...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10230/55589 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2022.3171442 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | IEEE 802.11be Multi-link operation Traffic management Dynamic allocation WLANs |
| Sumario: | The multi-link operation (MLO) is a key feature of the next IEEE 802.11be Extremely High Throughput amendment. Through its adoption, it is expected to enhance users’ experience by improving throughput rates and latency. However, potential MLO gains are tied to how traffic is distributed across the multiple radio interfaces. In this letter, we introduce a traffic manager atop MLO, and evaluate different high-level traffic-to-link allocation policies to distribute incoming traffic over the set of enabled interfaces. Following a flow-level approach, we compare both non-dynamic and dynamic traffic balancing policy types. The results show that the use of a dynamic policy, along with MLO, allows to significantly reduce the congestion suffered by traffic flows, enhancing the traffic delivery in all the evaluated scenarios, and in particular improving the quality of service received by video flows. Moreover, we show that the adoption of MLO in future Wi-Fi networks improves also the coexistence with non-MLO networks, which results in performance gains for both MLO and non-MLO networks. |
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