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Overcoming the Antennas-Per-Node Throughput Limit in MIMO LANs

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dc.contributor.advisor Dina Katabi
dc.contributor.author Perli, Samuel David en_US
dc.contributor.author Gollakota, Shyamnath en_US
dc.contributor.author Katabi, Dina en_US
dc.contributor.other Networks & Mobile Systems en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-02-19T19:15:22Z
dc.date.available 2009-02-19T19:15:22Z
dc.date.issued 2009-02-18
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44616
dc.description.abstract Today, the number of concurrent packets in a MIMO LAN is limited by the number of antennas on the AP. This paper shows how to overcome this limit. It presents a new design where multiple client-AP pairs can communicate concurrently, on the same 802.11 channel. We demonstrate both analytically and experimentally that our design almost doubles the throughput of a MIMO LAN. The key idea underlying our approach is Interference Alignment and Cancellation (IAC), a novel technique for decoding concurrent sender-receiver pairs in MIMO LANs. It exploits two basic properties of MIMO LANs. First, MIMO transmitters can control the alignment of their signals at a receiver. Second, APs are typically connected to a backend Ethernet, which they can use for coordination. Hence, in IAC, transmitters align their signals such that the first AP can decode at least one of the concurrent packets. Once a packet is decoded, it is sent over the Ethernet to the second AP, which subtracts it from its received signal to decode a second packet, which it sends to the third AP to decode the next packet, and so on. We implement our technique in 2x2 MIMO GNU Radios, and demonstrate via wireless experiments that IAC increases the average throughput of a MIMO LAN by 1.5x on the downlink and 2x on the uplink. en_US
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dc.format.extent 15 p. en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-007 en_US
dc.subject Interference alignment en_US
dc.subject Interference cancellation en_US
dc.subject Wireless networks en_US
dc.title Overcoming the Antennas-Per-Node Throughput Limit in MIMO LANs en_US

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