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An Uplink OFDMA Access Method for Low Latency in Next-Generation WLANs

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The next generation of wireless local area network (WLAN) standard: IEEE 802.11be takes ultra-high-definition video and ultra-low latency services as its core service bearer targets. Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology can improve the efficiency of multi-access, but the OFDMA protocol of the existing WLAN can only serve one user per resource unit in a transmission process, and the data between different users needs to be filled with invalid information bits (padding) to ensure the alignment of the transmission time. Padding creates a waste of resources and affects the latency characteristics of the business. This paper proposes an uplink OFDMA access method for low latency in the next generation of WLANs, allowing the wireless access point (AP) to divide OFDMA resource unit into multiple periods from time and assign each period to a station (STA) to transmit. The scheme can avoid the waste of resources and improve the response speed of user services. In this paper, the protocol flow and frame structure of this method are designed in detail to make scheme have good compatibility with IEEE 802.11ax. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can significantly improve latency performance compared with IEEE 802.11ax.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundations of CHINA (Grant No. 61871322, No. 61771392, and No. 61771390), and Science and Technology on Avionics Integration Laboratory and the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 20185553035 and No. 201955053002).

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    Qingsong Gao, Ding Wang, Mao Yang, Bo Li & Zhongjiang Yan

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Gao, Q., Wang, D., Yang, M., Li, B., Yan, Z. (2023). An Uplink OFDMA Access Method for Low Latency in Next-Generation WLANs. In: Deng, DJ., Chao, HC., Chen, JC. (eds) Smart Grid and Internet of Things. SGIoT 2022. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 497. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31275-5_21

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