Title
Comprehensive Study on MIMO-related Interference Management in WLANs
Abstract
With the explosive growth of smart devices and mobile data traffic, the wireless local area network (WLAN) faces persistent challenge on increasing the network throughput to meet the customer’s requirement. Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology to improve the network capacity and has been adopted to WLANs in current IEEE 802.11 standards. Interference management for MIMO-based WLANs has become a hot topic in recent years due to its huge potential in improving the network performance. This paper surveys the MIMO-related interference management mechanisms from both the single collision domain and multiple collision domain scenarios. It first provides some background information about the evolution of IEEE 802.11 standards, then introduces the MIMO-related physical layer and MAC layer mechanisms as preliminaries. After this, it investigates the current advances on MIMO-related interference management in both the single collision domain and multiple collision domain through the physical layer and MAC layer mechanism design. It also provides discussions on important findings and research challenges, and finally gives potential future research directions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/comst.2019.2894160
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Keywords
Field
DocType
MIMO communication,Interference,OFDM,IEEE 802.11 Standard,Physical layer,Wireless LAN
Collision domain,Computer science,Computer network,MIMO,Physical layer,Wi-Fi,Throughput,Mobile broadband,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,Distributed computing,Network performance
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
21
3
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junmei Yao1518.25
Jun Xu28312.24
Sheng Luo321.04
Lu Wang411915.87
Chao Yang55112.05
kaishun wu6105994.59
Wei Lou7104565.01