Implementation of PHY rate and A-MPDU length adaptation algorithm on WiSHFUL framework

Abstract

Abstract-Research on a new solution supporting low latency, high reliability, and scalability is required to deal with everincreasing demand for wireless communication. However, it is often restricted due to the fact that setting up experiments needs a considerable amount of effort and cost. To alleviate such difficulties, the WiSHFUL project has been established, which proposes an architecture for flexible and unified control of the wireless systems and platforms. The WiSHFUL architecture enables exploiting existing control knobs in a unified manner by offering platform-independent programming interfaces on top of heterogeneous hardware platforms. To illustrate the strength of the WiSHFUL architecture, we implement the existing wireless local area network (WLAN) performance enhancement algorithm, called STRALE, which adapts PHY rates and frame aggregation length for performance enhancement in mobile environments, using unified programming interfaces (UPIs) on the open-source software platform of WiSHFUL. Accordingly, STRALE is extended to be available on all devices compatible with WiSHFUL, showing the convenience and benefit of using the WiSHFUL platform.