A QoS-aware Scheduling with Node Grouping for IEEE 802.11ah

A QoS-aware Scheduling with Node Grouping for IEEE 802.11ah | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article A QoS-aware Scheduling with Node Grouping for IEEE 802.11ah Nurzaman Ahmed, Iftekhar Hussain This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-839252/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Published Journal Publication published 28 Jan, 2023 Read the published version in Wireless Networks → Version 1 posted 3 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract The recent IEEE 802.11ah amendment has proven to be suitable for supporting large-scale devices in Internet of Things (IoT). It is essential to provide a minimum level of Quality of Service (QoS) for critical applications such as industrial automaton and healthcare. In this paper, we propose a QoSaware Medium Access Control (MAC) layer solution to enhance network reliability and reduce critical traffic latency by an adaptive station grouping and a priority traffic scheduling scheme. The proposed grouping scheme calculates the current traffic load and distributes among different RAW groups considering different requirements of the stations. The RAW scheduling scheme further provides priority slot access using a novel backoff scheme. Markov-chain model is developed to study the throughput and latency behaviours for the traffic generated from the critical application. The proposed protocol shows significant delay improvement for priority traffic. The overall throughput performance improves up to 12.7% over the existing RAW grouping scheme. Software Engineering Internet of Things IEEE 802.11ah Restricted Access Window Quality of Service Full Text Competing Interests The authors declare no competing interests. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Published Journal Publication published 28 Jan, 2023 Read the published version in Wireless Networks → Version 1 posted Reviews received at journal 15 Oct, 2021 Editor assigned by journal 24 Aug, 2021 First submitted to journal 22 Aug, 2021 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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