Buffer management in wireless full-duplex systems

Nader Bouacida, Ahmad Showail, Basem Shihada

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Abstract

Wireless full-duplex radios can simultaneously transmit and receive using the same frequency. In theory, this can double the throughput. In fact, there is only little work addressing aspects other than throughput gains in full-duplex systems. Over-buffering in today's networks or the so-called “bufferbloat” phenomenon creates excessive end-to-end delays resulting in network performance degradation. Our analysis shows that full-duplex systems may suffer from high latency caused by bloated buffers. In this paper, we address the problem of buffer management in full-duplex networks by using Wireless Queue Management (WQM), which is an active queue management technique for wireless networks. Our solution is based on Relay Full-Duplex MAC (RFD-MAC), an asynchronous media access control protocol designed for relay full-duplexing. We compare the performance of WQM in full-duplex environment to Drop Tail mechanism over various scenarios. Our solution reduces the end-to-end delay by two orders of magnitude while achieving similar throughput in most of the cases.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages557-564
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781467377010
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 8 2015

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