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LUPMAC: A cross-layer MAC technique to improve the age of information over dense WLANs

Franco, Antonio LU ; Fitzgerald, Emma LU orcid ; Landfeldt, Björn LU ; Pappas, Nikolaos and Angelakis, Vangelis (2016) 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), 2016 p.724-729
Abstract
Age of Information (AoI) is a relatively new metric introduced to capture the freshness of a particular piece of information. While throughput and delay measurements are widely studied in the context of dense IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs) little is known in the literature about the AoI in this context. In this work we study the effects on the average AoI and its variance when a sensor node is immersed in a dense IEEE 802.11 WLAN. We also introduce a new cross layer MAC technique called Latest UPdate MAC (LUPMAC) aimed at modifying the existing IEEE 802.11 in order to minimize the average AoI at the receiver end. This technique lets the MAC layer keep only the most up to date packets of a particular piece of information in the buffer.... (More)
Age of Information (AoI) is a relatively new metric introduced to capture the freshness of a particular piece of information. While throughput and delay measurements are widely studied in the context of dense IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs) little is known in the literature about the AoI in this context. In this work we study the effects on the average AoI and its variance when a sensor node is immersed in a dense IEEE 802.11 WLAN. We also introduce a new cross layer MAC technique called Latest UPdate MAC (LUPMAC) aimed at modifying the existing IEEE 802.11 in order to minimize the average AoI at the receiver end. This technique lets the MAC layer keep only the most up to date packets of a particular piece of information in the buffer. We show, through simulation, that this technique achieves significant advantages in the case of a congested dense IEEE 802.11 WLAN, and it is resilient to changes in the variance of the total network delay. (Less)
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Age of information, IEEE 802.11, Dense WLANs
pages
6 pages
conference name
23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), 2016
conference location
Thessaloniki, Greece
conference dates
2016-05-16 - 2016-05-18
external identifiers
  • scopus:84979281155
  • wos:000386851600127
DOI
10.1109/ICT.2016.7500469
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ELLIIT LU P01: WP2 Networking solutions
language
English
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  author       = {{Franco, Antonio and Fitzgerald, Emma and Landfeldt, Björn and Pappas, Nikolaos and Angelakis, Vangelis}},
  keywords     = {{Age of information; IEEE 802.11; Dense WLANs}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{724--729}},
  title        = {{LUPMAC: A cross-layer MAC technique to improve the age of information over dense WLANs}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/9478919/paper.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/ICT.2016.7500469}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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