mmMAGIC (Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for Fifth Generation Integrated Communications) is an EU funded 5G-PPP project, whose overall objective is to design and pre-develop a mobile radio access technology (RAT) operating in the 6-100 GHz range, capable of impacting standards and other relevant fora. The focus of the project is on extreme Mobile Broadband, which is expected to drive the 5G requirements for massive increase in capacity and data-rates. This paper elaborates on some 5G key research areas such as: identification of the most compelling use-cases and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for future 5G systems, advantages and challenges of millimeter-wave (mmWave) technologies, channel measurements and channel modeling, network architecture; and the design of a new mobile radio interface including multi-node and multi-antenna transceiver architecture.

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The expansion of wireless applications in dense environments raises many technical issues. The 802 standards need to adapt and enhance the network quality by developing new technologies. The block acknowledgment (BA) mechanism was introduced in the IEEE 802.11e standard to improve medium access control (MAC) efficiency. It requires the exchange of many control frames to establish a session with each user, which turns into an issue for networks in dense environments as it causes increased overhead and latency. This paper deals with the optimization of the BA session management procedure. We propose a modified block acknowledgment session control mechanism which reduces the overhead and latency compared to the original one.

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