Sittin'On the Dock of the (WiFi) Bay: On the Frame Aggregation under IEEE 802.11 DCF
Ricardo J. Rodr\'iguez, Jos\'e Luis Salazar, Juli\'an, Fern\'andez-Navajas

TL;DR
This paper analyzes the trade-off between efficiency and delay caused by frame aggregation in IEEE 802.11 DCF, establishing conditions for its benefit on average delay through stochastic modeling and numerical experiments.
Contribution
It introduces a stochastic framework to determine optimal frame aggregation levels that minimize delay, providing practical guidelines for IEEE 802.11 DCF performance optimization.
Findings
Frame aggregation reduces transmission congestion.
Optimal aggregation levels improve average delay.
Numerical results validate the theoretical conditions.
Abstract
It is well known that frame aggregation in Internet communications improves transmission efficiency. However, it also causes a delay that for some real-time communications is inappropriate, thus creating a trade-off between efficiency and delay. In this paper, we establish the conditions for frame aggregation under the IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol to be beneficial on average delay. To do so, we first describe the transmission time in IEEE 802.11 in a stochastic framework and then we calculate the optimal value of the frames that, when aggregated, saves transmission time in the long term. Our findings, discussed with numerical experimentation, show that frame aggregation reduces transmission congestion and transmission delays.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsWireless Networks and Protocols · Advanced Wireless Network Optimization · Wireless Communication Networks Research
