2021/05/21 by Álvaro López-Raventós, López-Raventós, Álvaro, Boris Bellalta +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Wireless Network Optimization #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Mobile Ad Hoc Networks #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Wireless Networks and Protocols
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2105.10199
openalex publication_date 2021/05/21 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The multi-link operation (MLO) is a new feature proposed to be part of the\nIEEE 802.11be Extremely High Throughput (EHT) amendment. Through MLO, access\npoints and stations will be provided with the capabilities to transmit and\nreceive data from the same traffic flow over multiple radio interfaces.\nHowever, the question on how traffic flows should be distributed over the\ndifferent interfaces to maximize the WLAN performance is still unresolved. To\nthat end, we evaluate in this article different traffic allocation policies,\nunder a wide variety of scenarios and traffic loads, in order to shed some\nlight on that question. The obtained results confirm that congestion-aware\npolicies outperform static ones. However, and more importantly, the results\nalso reveal that traffic flows become highly vulnerable to the activity of\nneighboring networks when they are distributed across multiple links. As a\nresult, the best performance is obtained when a new arriving flow is simply\nassigned entirely to the emptiest interface.\n