Theoretical maximum throughput of IEEE 802.11ad millimeter wave wireless LAN in the contention based access period: With two level aggregation
M. N. Upama Rajan, Anchare V. Babu · 2017
IEEE 802.11ad standard defines high data rate WLAN at 60 GHz. It uses a hybrid MAC protocol consists of CSMA/CA and TDMA. This paper investigates theoretical maximum throughput of IEEE 802.11ad milli meter Wave (mmWave) WLAN during contention based access period (CBAP). We describe an analytical model to compute the maximum achievable throughput with two level MAC frame aggregation for various physical layer modulation and coding schemes. ns-3 simulations are used for validating the result. MAC frame size which maximizes the throughput under error prone channels is also calculated. Numerical and simulation results show that frame aggregation is mandatory for 802.11ad WLAN systems.