CCA Threshold Levels Date: 2011-01-17 Authors: January 2011 Month Year doc.: IEEE 802.11-yy/xxxxr0 January 2011 CCA Threshold Levels Date: 2011-01-17 Authors: Ron Porat Broadcom 16340 West Bernardo Dr., San Diego, CA 92127 858-521-5409 rporat@broadcom.com Vinko Erceg 858-521-5885 verceg@broadcom.com Robert Stacey Intel robert.j.stacey@intel.com Eldad Perahia Ning Zhang Atheros 1700 Technology Drive, San Jose, CA 95110 +1-408-830-5835 ning@atheros.com Youhan Kim Aheros +1-408-773-5363 youhan.kim@atheros.com Brian Hart Cisco brianh@cisco.com Reza Hedayat rehedaya@cisco.com Hongyuan Zhang Marvell 5488 Marvell Ln, Santa Clara, CA 95054 408-222-1837 hongyuan@marvell.com Raja Banerjea 408-222-3719 rajab@marvell.com Hemanth Sampath Qualcomm San Diego hsampath@qualcomm.com VK Jones vkjones@qualcomm.com Yongho Seok LG Electronics, Inc. 533, Hogye-1dong, Dongan-Gu, Anyang-Shi, Kyungki-Do, 431-749, 82-31-450-1947 yongho.seok@lge.com Daewon Lee LG Electronics, Inc 82-31-450-7897 daewon.lee@lge.com Minho Cheong ETRI 161 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, +82 42 860 5635 minho@etri.re.kr Jae Seung Lee +82 42 860 1326 jasonlee@etri.re.kr Ron Porat, Broadcom John Doe, Some Company

Authors: January 2011 Ron Porat, Broadcom Youngsoo Kim Samsung Electronics Mt. 14-1 Nongseo-Ri, Giheung-Eup, Yongin-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea 449-712 kimyoungsoo@samsung.com Chunhui (Allan) Zhu Samsung Electronics 75 W Plumeria Dr. San Jose CA 95134 USA +1-408-544-5667 c.zhu@samsung.com Vish Ponnampalam MediaTek Vish.ponnampalam@mediatek.com Sean Coffey Realtek Coffey@realtek.com George Vlantis ST-Ericsson George.vlantis@st.com Edward Au Huawei edwardau@huawei.com Bo Sun ZTE Sun.Bo1@zte.com.com Matthew Fischer Broadcom mfischer@broadcom.com Joshua Zhao Atheros 1700 Technology Drive, San Jose, CA 95110 +1-408-222-5476 joshua.zhao@atheros.com Kai Shi +1-408-720-5574 kai.shi@atheros.com Ron Porat, Broadcom

January 2011 Summary We present system simulation results to determine and propose the CCA levels on secondary 20/40/80MHz channels Two sets of different simulations are presented The first set assumes that all STAs are sharing same bandwidth The second set assumes that STAs share a mix of 40MHz and 80MHz bandwidths Slide 3 Ron Porat, Broadcom

System Simulation Parameters – First Set January 2011 System Simulation Parameters – First Set N APs and M STA per AP are dropped in an area of size SxS ft (numbers shown in plots) APs are placed regularly with 5ft std (results with 15ft are similar) STAs are associated with the closest AP according to path loss (including random shadowing) One valid transmission per BSS is assumed BSSs are chosen randomly that meet CCA rules (50% probability to choose an AP as a transmitter) After all transmitters were chosen, SINR is calculated at each receiver and mapped to MCS SISO links over one 40MHz channel are assumed with 15dBm transmit power CCA levels are varied from -90dBm to -50dBm (-90dBm just above noise floor for 40MHz) Simulation uses 50 drops and 250 TXOP per drop All plots show average and five percentile per-link throughput (Tput) , average and five percentile sum Tput in TXOP, and the number of concurrent transmissions Slide 4 Ron Porat, Broadcom

A note on Performance with Multiple Frequencies January 2011 A note on Performance with Multiple Frequencies The results in this simulation assume that all BSS use the same frequency representing a worst case scenario. If multiple frequencies are used, adjacent BSS will not cause as much interference to each other since they will be operating on different frequencies. BSS that share the same frequency will be farther apart and will not suffer as much from increased CCA levels. Slide 5 Ron Porat, Broadcom

Result 1 – very low density (400ft x 400ft, 4 APs) January 2011 Result 1 – very low density (400ft x 400ft, 4 APs) Due to the large distance between AP the individual links Tput is low. CCA levels above -75dBm achieve most of the network throughput Optimal point maximizing network throughput at -65dBm Optimal point maximizing per-link Tput at noise level Slide 6 Ron Porat, Broadcom

Result 2 – low density (200ft x 200ft, 4 APs) January 2011 Result 2 – low density (200ft x 200ft, 4 APs) Similar trends seen with an optimal point maximizing network throughput at -60dBm Optimal point maximizing per-link Tput is at approximately -85dBm Slide 7 Ron Porat, Broadcom

Result 3 – high density I (200ft x 200ft, 9 APs) January 2011 Result 3 – high density I (200ft x 200ft, 9 APs) Optimal point maximizing network throughput at -50dBm Optimal point maximizing per-link Tput at noise level Slide 8 Ron Porat, Broadcom

Result 4 – high density II (300ft x 300ft, 16 APs) January 2011 Result 4 – high density II (300ft x 300ft, 16 APs) High number of AP and clients enables many more transmitters to operate concurrently and maximum network throughput is achieved at CCA level -55dBm Optimal point maximizing per-link Tput at noise level Slide 9 Ron Porat, Broadcom

January 2011 Result 4 – cont. In each drop we sum the number of times each BSS had a transmission (out of 250 x 50 TXOP) and plot the ratio relative to the average of al BSS Low CCA level cause unfairness for inner BSS Slide 10 Ron Porat, Broadcom

System Simulation Parameters – Second Set January 2011 System Simulation Parameters – Second Set System-level simulations that include all the MAC behaviors would provide more insight on the interplay of PHY and MAC VHT STA receiver with 80 MHz operating bandwidth shall provide CCA on all 20 MHz channels constituting the 80 MHz channel. In the following slides the CCA choices for secondary 40 MHz is investigated, and would expect equivalent CCA values to be extended to secondary 80 MHz channel CCA threshold -79dBm Primary 40 MHz CCA threshold TBD Secondary 40 MHz Ron Porat, Broadcom

System Simulation Parameters – Second Set: Cont January 2011 System Simulation Parameters – Second Set: Cont UDP traffic, packet size of 1500 bytes CWmin=7, CWmax=63 Data rate: 3/4, 64QAM Control rate: 1/2, 16QAM TXOP limit: 3 ms Bandwidth 40 MHz: 108/6 data/pilots tones Bandwidth 80 MHz: 234/8 data/pilot tones Ron Porat, Broadcom

Case I January 2011 BSS40MHz (blue) BSS80MHz (red) BW=40MHz Channel 44(P)-48 BSS80MHz (red) BW=80MHz Channel 36(P)-48 APs distance ~22 m Ron Porat, Broadcom

Case I January 2011 -79dBm on Secondary 40MHz APs distance ~10 m Ron Porat, Broadcom

Case II January 2011 BSS40MHz (blue) BSS80MHz (red) BSS40MHz (green) BW=40MHz Channel 36(P)-40 BSS80MHz (red) BW=80Mhz Channel 36(P)-48 BSS40MHz (green) Channel 44(P)-48 Blue and green curves are same APs Distance ~20-30 m Ron Porat, Broadcom

Case II January 2011 -79dBm on Secondary 40MHz APs Distance ~8 m Ron Porat, Broadcom

Conclusions from the Results January 2011 Conclusions from the Results Optimal CCA levels may depend on the density of the networks and the achievable per-link throughput without interference (which is a function of the MIMO configuration, transmit power and path loss) Higher CCA levels are preferable to maximize network throughput Lower CCA levels are preferable to maximize single link throughput Fairness: High CCA levels May result in some STAs having low per-link throughput Link Adaptation may be important Low CCA levels Shut down adjacent BSS for several TXOPs even though AP and clients in that BSS have high SNR Impact QoS since delay in channel access is increased Fairness with mixed bandwidths needs to be taken into account Slide 17 Ron Porat, Broadcom

Conclusions from the Results: Cont January 2011 Conclusions from the Results: Cont Dynamic selection of CCA levels may be optimal but more work may be needed to understand how to choose the levels Assuming one CCA level is chosen we think a reasonable compromise is to adopt CCA levels in the middle of the range at -72 dBm for 40MHz BW adjusted proportionally for different BWs. However, as shown in the next slide, for the case of 20 MHz secondary channels we propose a higher level of -72dBm to improve fairness with 802.11n Note that the proposed CCA levels are 10-13 dB more stringent than the 802.11n levels Slide 18 Ron Porat, Broadcom

HT and VHT STAs in Adjacent 40MHz Channels Month Year doc.: IEEE 802.11-yy/xxxxr0 January 2011 HT and VHT STAs in Adjacent 40MHz Channels WiFi devices operate with an average of 25dB adjacent channel leakage Large discrepancy in CCA level for secondary20 between 11n and 11ac may lead to unfairness between HT and VHT STAs in adjacent channels using the same bandwidth in some cases 11n has -62 dBm CCA sensitivity for the secondary20 There is extra incentive to reduce the discrepancy in CCA level between 11n and 11ac for secondary20 VHT STA in pink channel, HT STA in blue channel VHT STA transmitting HT STA transmitting 40 MHz 40 MHz 40 MHz 40 MHz P S P S -62 dBm -82 dBm Secondary20 of HT40 STA is IDLE Secondary20 of VHT40 STA is BUSY Ron Porat, Broadcom John Doe, Some Company

January 2011 Pre motion #1 Move to accept the following CCA levels on the secondary channels: 20MHz: - 72 dBm 40MHz: - 72 dBm 80MHz : - 69 dBm Slide 20 Ron Porat, Broadcom