September 2005 Performance Evaluation of the CCC MMAC Protocol for 802.11s Mesh Networks Date: 2005-09-12 Authors: Notice: This document has been prepared.

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September 2005 Performance Evaluation of the CCC MMAC Protocol for s Mesh Networks Mathilde Benveniste, Avaya Labs Research Jeffrey Zhifeng Tao, Polytechnic University Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Outline Overview of IEEE 802.11s
September 2005 Outline Overview of IEEE s Common Control Channel (CCC) MMAC Protocol Performance Evaluation Conclusion and Discussion Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

IEEE 802.11s: Mesh Networking
September 2005 IEEE s: Mesh Networking Major applications: Public access Enterprise network Home network Military/Public Security Emergency/Rescue . . . Router BSS 1 BSS 2 BSS 3 Internet Mesh networking Portal Router BSS 1 BSS 2 BSS 3 Internet Legacy WLAN deployment Wireless Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

CCC MMAC Framework References: IEEE 802.11-05/707, 05/880
September 2005 CCC MMAC Framework References: IEEE /707, 05/880 Two logical channels Common control channel (CC) One or multiple mesh traffic (MT) channels Agnostic to the number of physical radios Single radio Both CC and MT share the same physical radio/frequency band Multiple radios A radio is dedicated to control channel Other radios carry multiple mesh traffic channels Dynamic channel assignment The handshake at the control channel can readily achieve dynamic channel assignment Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

CCC MMAC: Illustration
September 2005 CCC MMAC: Illustration Reserve MT channel 2 Reserve MT channel 1 MRTS MCTS MRTS MCTS MRTS MCTS MRTS Reserve MT channel 1 MCTS Reserve MT channel 3 CC 2437 GHz MT 1 MTXOP MTXOP 5220 GHz MT 2 MTXOP 5260 GHz MT 3 MTXOP 5300 GHz time Frequency Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Performance Evaluation
September 2005 Performance Evaluation Study 1: Saturation load Primary objective: demonstrate the effect of PHY rate and TXOP size on network goodput, under the saturation load Study 2: Queueing and access delay – important for QoS Primary objective: demonstrate the effect of the CCC protocol under a fixed offered load Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Collected Statistics Goodput Delay September 2005
Defer, Backoff, Transmit, Retransmit Buffer MSDU from LLC T0 T3 T1 Transmitter Receiver Wireless Channel Queueing Delay (T1 – T0) Media Access (T2 – T1) to LLC T2 Goodput PHY Hdr MAC Hdr Goodput Payload bits correctly received at the intended recipient per unit time Excludes the PHY and MAC headers Delay Queueing delay Channel access delay MSDU: MAC Service Data Unit PPDU: PHY Protocol Data Unit Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Channel Configuration
September 2005 Simulation Scenarios Simulation Scenario Channel Configuration EDCF Control and data frames share the same channel CCC 2 MT 1 control channel, 2 data channels … CCC n MT 1 control channel, n data channels Radios: 1 transceiver and 1 receiver Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Study 1: Saturation load
September 2005 Study 1: Saturation load Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Simulation Settings September 2005 Case I: 4 traffic streams
Constant payload size: 1500 bytes Exponential frame inter-arrival Physical layer rates 24Mbps and 54Mbps 6Mbps Access parameters CWmin 32; CWmax 1024; AIFS DIFS TXOP sizes 10 and 15 frames Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Goodput -- 15 frames/TXOP
September 2005 Goodput frames/TXOP EDCF (1 MT) CCC (2 MTs) (3 MTs) (4 MTs) Goodput increases linearly with the number of data channels The control channel is not a bottleneck Control channel at 6 Mbps; 4 traffic streams Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

September 2005 Goodput frames/TXOP EDCF (1 MT) CCC (2 MTs) (3 MTs) (4 MTs) Shorter TXOP increased control traffic by 50% Goodput still increases linearly with the number of data channels The control channel is not a bottleneck Control channel at 6 Mbps; 4 traffic streams Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Goodput – no TXOP Overstressing the control channel!
September 2005 Goodput – no TXOP Overstressing the control channel! EDCF (1 MT) CCC (2 MTs) (3 MTs) (4 MTs) Without TXOPs, control traffic increases by 1,000% Goodput still increases Typically, traffic in a large mesh will be forwarded as TXOPs 15.36 EDC MT 40.02 MT Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Summary of Goodput Results
September 2005 Summary of Goodput Results 10 frames/TXOP Number of MT channels Data PHY 24Mbps Data PHY 54Mbps 1 (i.e., EDCF) 20.2 Mbps 39.3 Mbps 2 39.0 Mbps 73.3 Mbps 3 58.6 Mbps 109.5 Mbps 4 78.0 Mbps 143.8 Mbps 15 frames/TXOP Number of MT channels Data PHY 24Mbps Data PHY 54Mbps 1 (i.e., EDCF) 20.6 Mbps 40.2 Mbps 2 39.6 Mbps 75.3 Mbps 3 59.6 Mbps 112.6 Mbps 4 79.2 Mbps 149.4 Mbps MT channel: mesh traffic channel Control channel at 6 Mbps; 4 traffic streams Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Simulation Settings September 2005 Case I: 8 traffic streams
Constant payload size: 1500 bytes Exponential frame inter-arrival Physical layer rates 24Mbps and 54Mbps 6Mbps Access parameters CWmin 32; CWmax 1024; AIFS DIFS TXOP sizes 10 and 15 frames Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

September 2005 Goodput frames/TXOP EDCF (1 MT) CCC (2 MTs) (4 MTs) (6 MTs) (8 MTs) Goodput increases linearly with the number of data channels The control channel is not a bottleneck Control channel at 6 Mbps; 8 traffic streams Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

September 2005 Goodput frames/TXOP EDCF (1 MT) CCC (2 MTs) (4 MTs) (6 MTs) (8 MTs) Shorter TXOP increased control traffic by 50% Goodput still increases linearly with the number of data channels The control channel is not a bottleneck Control channel at 6 Mbps; 8 traffic streams Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Summary of Goodput Results
September 2005 Summary of Goodput Results 10 frames/TXOP Number of MT channels Data PHY 24Mbps Data PHY 54Mbps 1 (i.e., EDCF) 20.2 Mbps 39.3 Mbps 2 39.1 Mbps 73.3 Mbps 4 78.1 Mbps 145.3 Mbps 6 117.0 Mbps 217.0 Mbps 8 154.4 Mbps 280.3 Mbps 15 frames/TXOP Number of MT channels Data PHY 24Mbps Data PHY 54Mbps 1 (i.e., EDCF) 20.5 Mbps 40.3 Mbps 2 39.7 Mbps 75.2 Mbps 4 79.3 Mbps 149.9 Mbps 6 118.9 Mbps 224.2 Mbps 8 157.5 Mbps 293.8 Mbps Control channel at 6 Mbps; 8 traffic streams Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Study 2: Queueing and access delay
September 2005 Study 2: Queueing and access delay Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Average Queueing Delay
September 2005 Data PHY rate: 24Mbps Load: 15 Mbps Data PHY rate: 54Mbps Load: 24 Mbps 15 ms of delay for EDCA reduced to <1ms by CCC 13 ms of delay for EDCA reduced to <0.5ms by CCC Control channel at 6 Mbps; 4 traffic streams; 1 frame/TXOP Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Average Channel Access Delay
September 2005 Average Channel Access Delay Data PHY rate: 24Mbps Load: 15 Mbps Data PHY rate: 54Mbps Load: 24 Mbps Control channel at 6 Mbps; 4 traffic streams; 1 frame/TXOP Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

Average Queueing & Access Delays
September 2005 Average Queueing & Access Delays Data PHY rate: 24Mbps Load: 19 Mbps Queueing Delay Access Delay 60 ms of delay by EDCA reduced to 3.5 ms by CCC Control channel at 6 Mbps; 8 traffic streams; 10 frames/TXOP Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

CDF Queueing & Access Delays
September 2005 CDF Queueing & Access Delays Data PHY rate: 24Mbps Load: 19 Mbps Queueing Delay Access Delay Control channel at 6 Mbps; 8 traffic streams; 10 frames/TXOP Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

September 2005 Conclusions CCC multi-channel MMAC performs significantly better than EDCF higher goodput lower delay Goodput increases linearly as the number of available MT channels increases The control channel is not a bottleneck, even at 6 Mbps Avaya Labs, Polytechnic University

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