NDLI: MU-MIMO MAC Protocols for Wireless Local Area Networks: A Survey

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ruizhi Liao Bellalta, B. Oliver, M. Zhisheng Niu
Copyright Year	1998
Abstract	As wireless devices boom and bandwidth-hungry applications (e.g., video and cloud uploading) get popular, today's wireless local area networks (WLANs) become not only crowded but also stressed at throughput. Multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO), an advanced form of MIMO, has gained attention due to its huge potential in improving the performance of WLANs. This paper surveys random access-based medium access control (MAC) protocols for MU-MIMO-enabled WLANs. It first provides background information about the evolution and the fundamental MAC schemes of IEEE 802.11 Standards and Amendments, and then identifies the key requirements of designing MU-MIMO MAC protocols for WLANs. After this, the most representative MU-MIMO MAC proposals in the literature are overviewed by benchmarking their MAC procedures and examining the key components, such as the channel state information acquisition, decoding/precoding, and scheduling schemes. Classifications and discussions on important findings of the surveyed MAC protocols are provided, based on which, the research challenges for designing effective MU-MIMO MAC protocols, as well as the envisaged MAC's role in the future heterogeneous networks, are highlighted.
Starting Page	162
Ending Page	183
Page Count	22
File Size	1794800
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1553877X
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2016-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Media Access Protocol IEEE 802.11 Standards Multiaccess communication Wireless LAN MIMO Throughput MUD MAC WLAN’s scheduling MU-MIMO IEEE 802.11 WLANs MUIC CSI
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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