2021/05/25 by Matteo Drago, Drago, Matteo, Tommy Azzino +8
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization #Advanced Wireless Network Optimization #Computer science #Distributed computing #Engineering #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Operations management #Parallel computing #Scheduling (production processes) #Wireless Networks and Protocols #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2105.11865
6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. This paper has been submitted to IEEE GLOBECOM 2021. Copyright may change without notice
arxiv created 2021/05/25 · openalex publication_date 2021/05/25 · arxiv updated 2021/05/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The latest IEEE 802.11 amendments provide support to directional communications in the Millimeter Wave spectrum and, thanks to the wide bandwidth available at such frequencies, makes it possible to wirelessly approach several emergent use cases, such as virtual and augmented reality, telepresence, and remote control of industrial facilities. However, these applications require stringent Quality of Service, that only contention-free scheduling algorithms can guarantee. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end framework for the joint admission control and scheduling of periodic traffic streams over mmWave Wireless Local Area Networks based on Network Simulator 3, a popular full-stack open-source network simulator. Moreover, we design a baseline algorithm to handle scheduling requests, and we evaluate its performance with a full-stack perspective. The algorithm is tested in three scenarios, where we investigated different configurations and features to highlight the differences and trade-offs between contention-based and contention-free access strategies.