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IEEE 802.11ax standard labeled HEW (High Efficiency WLANs: Wireless Local Area Networks) is an ongoing IEEE project. Its objective is to improve spectrum efficiency and enhance the system throughput in high density areas such as airport, stadium, train, apartment building, etc. For this, several major amendments have been proposed at both physical (PHY) and Medium Access Control (MAC) layers. The Full Duplex (FD) technology is one of the main innovations of the IEEE 802.11ax. It allows to double the throughput of the Half Duplex (HD) radio at MAC layer by means of a specific radio antenna known as Self-Interference Cancellation (SIC) employed at physical layer of IEEE 802.11ax. In this paper, we aim at proposing and implementing a new Full Duplex MAC protocol designed for the future generation of high efficiency WLANs, which is named High Performance Full Duplex (HP-FD) protocol. The goal of this protocol is maximizing radio capacity of Full Duplex transmissions and minimizing overhead. We compare simulation results of our protocol with O2-MAC and In-Frame-Querying via histograms, for which we attache confidence intervals. The obtained numerical results demonstrate efficiency of our protocol in terms of throughput, overhead, and loss rate.
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Hocini, K., Yazid, M. (2021). Towards High Performance Full Duplex MAC Protocol in High Efficiency WLANs. In: Hatti, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Renewables Towards an Energy Transition. ICAIRES 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 174. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63846-7_72
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