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DB-LBT: Deterministic Backoff with Listen Before Talk for Wi-Fi/NR-U Coexistence in Shared Bands

The legacy approach to solve coexistence problems between multiple wireless networks operating in the same frequency bands is through network planning. However, this approach is often unfeasible in unlicensed (shared) bands, where different network …

Using self-deferral to achieve fairness between Wi-Fi and NR-U in downlink and uplink scenarios

Wireless networks operating in unlicensed bands generally use one of two channel access paradigms: random access (e.g., Wi-Fi) or scheduled access (e.g., LTE License Assisted Access, LTE LAA and New Radio-Unlicensed, NR-U). The coexistence between …

No Reservations Required: Achieving Fairness between Wi-Fi and NR-U with Self-Deferral Only

Wireless technologies coexisting in unlicensed bands should receive a fair share of the available channel resources, even when they use different access methods. We consider the problem of coexistence between Wi-Fi and New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) …

Two IEEE 802.11 DCF Simulators Written in Python

Last year I proposed a topic for an engineering thesis and I’m happy to report that two students have separately developed two Python-based IEEE 802.11 channel access simulators: Cecylia Borek developed DCF-NumPy, Paweł Topór developed DCF-SimPy. Both tools simulate channel access for 802.11’s distributed coordination function (DCF) assuming 802.11a PHY parameters and network saturation. Also, the code for both tools is available on GitHub. DCF-NumPy is a Monte Carlo simulator which loops over 802.

Downlink channel access performance of NR-U: Impact of numerology and mini-slots on coexistence with Wi-Fi in the 5 GHz band

Coexistence between cellular systems and Wi-Fi gained the attention of the research community when LTE License Assisted Access (LAA) entered the unlicensed band. The recent introduction of NR-U as part of 5G introduces new coexistence opportunities …

Impact of Lossy Forwarding on MAC and Routing Design in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Multi-hop ad hoc networks may employ cooperative communication, in which opportunistic relays use the spatial diversity of radio channels to increase communication reliability. An emerging variant of traditional relaying and forwarding schemes is the …

Impact of LTE's Periodic Interference on Heterogeneous Wi-Fi Transmissions

The problem of Wi-Fi and LTE coexistence has been significantly debated in the last years with the emergence of LTE extensions enabling the utilization of unlicensed spectrum for carrier aggregation. Rather than focusing on the problem of resource …

CLF-MAC: A coordinated MAC protocol supporting Lossy Forwarding in WLANs

Current communication standards and systems are not prepared for their application in unpredictable (lossy) environments. We present CLF-MAC - a new MAC protocol supporting the concepts of lossy forwarding and joint decoding, which implements channel …

A cooperative MAC protocol for lossy forwarding networks

We present in this paper a MAC layer protocol capable to cope with lossy links in interference-prone wireless environments. Our approach exploits the recent advances in information theory and physical layer coding by relaying at intermediate nodes …