Examining Relationships Between 802.11n Physical Layer Transmission Feature Combinations
Ali Abedi, Tim B. Brecht · 2016
To increase throughput the 802.11n standard introduced several physical layer transmission features including a short guard interval wider channels, and MIMO. Since obtaining peak throughput depends on choosing the combination of physical layer features (configuration) best suited for the channel conditions, the large number of configurations greatly complicates the decision. A deeper understanding of relationships between configurations under a variety of channel conditions should simplify the choices and improve the performance of algorithms selecting configurations. Examples of such algorithms include: rate and channel width adaptation, frame aggregation, and MIMO setting optimization.