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A first implementation and evaluation of the IEEE 802.11aa group addressed transmission service

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Pablo Salvador,

Luca Cominardi,

Francesco Gringoli,

Pablo SerranoAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 44, Issue 1

Pages 35 - 41

https://doi.org/10.1145/2567561.2567567

Published: 31 December 2013 Publication History

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The IEEE 802.11aa Task Group has recently standardized a set of mechanisms to efficiently support video multicasting, namely, the Group Addressed Transmission Service (GATS). In this article, we report the implementation of these mechanisms over commodity hardware, which we make publicly available, and conduct a study to assess their performance under a variety of real-life scenarios. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental assessment of GATS, which is performed along three axes: we report their complexity in terms of lines of code, their effectiveness when delivering video traffic, and their efficiency when utilizing wireless resources. Our results provide key insights on the resulting trade-offs when using each mechanism, and paves the way for new enhancements to deliver video over 802.11 Wireless LANs.

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A first implementation and evaluation of the IEEE 802.11aa group addressed transmission service
1. Networks
  1. Network architectures
  2. Network properties
    1. Network range
      1. Local area networks
      2. Wide area networks

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Reviewer: Karl Andersson

The amendment IEEE 802.11aa was standardized in order to better support video multicast over Wi-Fi, or more precisely, to support real-time streaming of video from a single producer to multiple receiving clients on the same wireless local area network (LAN). This is referred to as group addressed transmission service (GATS). In particular, a very interesting medium access control (MAC) scheme is designed, so that the transmitter sends a burst of video frame packets to a group address, and then performs a per-station poll to receive acknowledgments of successfully received frames. That MAC scheme is more complex than others because a sliding window of frames has to be maintained by the transmitter and ack handling has to be done. On the other hand, that MAC scheme utilizes the wireless medium more efficiently. The contribution of this paper is twofold: the implementation, which is made publicly available, and the evaluation of the different multicast schemes direct multicast service (DMS), unsolicited retries (UR), and block acknowledgment (BA). The results are summarized in a table showing that BA has higher complexity on the one hand, but also higher effectiveness and efficiency on the other hand, outperforming DMS and UR. Researchers and innovators in the field of wireless communications, as well as implementers of IEEE 802.11 functionality should find the article worthwhile reading. Online Computing Reviews Service

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cover image ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 44, Issue 1

January 2014

61 pages

ISSN:0146-4833

DOI:10.1145/2567561

Editors:
Konstantina Papagiannaki
Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain
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Sharad Agarwal
Microsoft Research, USA
,
Katerina Argyraki
EPFL, Switzerland
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Hitesh Ballani
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
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Fabián Bustamante
Northwestern University, USA
,
Joseph Camp
SMU, USA
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Augustin Chaintreau
Columbia University, USA
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Nikolaos Laoutaris
Telefonica Research, Spain
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Marco Mellia
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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Bhaskaran Raman
IIT Bombay, India
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Renata Teixeira
LIP6, France
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Jia Wang
AT&T Research, USA
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Matteo Varvello
Bell Labs/Alcatel Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA

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