Taking the Sting out of Carrier Sense: Interference Cancellation for Wireless LANs

被引：152

作者：

Halperin, Daniel ^{[1
]}

Anderson, Thomas ^{[1
]}

Wetherall, David ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[2] Univ Washington, Intel Res Seattle, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

来源：

MOBICOM'08: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE COMPUTING AND NETWORKING | 2008年

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Interference cancellation; spatial reuse; carrier sense; wireless networks; software radio;

D O I：

10.1145/1409944.1409983

中图分类号：

TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

A fundamental problem with unmanaged wireless networks is high packet loss rates and poor spatial reuse, especially with bursty traffic typical of normal use. To address these limitations, we explore the notion of interference cancellation for unmanaged networks - the ability for a single receiver to disambiguate and successfully receive simultaneous overlapping transmissions from multiple unsynchronized sources. - We describe a practical algorithm for interference cancellation, and implement it for ZigBee using software radios. In this setting, we find that our techniques can reduce packet loss rate and substantially increase spatial reuse. With carrier sense set to prevent concurrent sends, our approach reduces the packet loss rate during collisions from 14% to 8% due to improved handling of hidden terminals. Conversely, disabling carrier sense reduces performance for only 7% of all pairs of links and increases the delivery rate for the median pair of links in our testbed by a factor of 1.8 due to improved spatial reuse.

引用

页码：339 / +

页数：3

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