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Emerging multimedia applications often use a wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) infrastructure to stream content. These Wi-Fi deployments vary vastly in terms of their system configurations. In this paper, we take a step toward characterizing the Quality of Experience (QoE) of volumetric video streaming over an enterprise-grade Wi-Fi network to: (i) understand the impact of Wi-Fi control parameters on user QoE, (ii) analyze the relation between Quality of Service (QoS) metrics of Wi-Fi networks and application QoE, and (iii) compare the QoE of volumetric video streaming to traditional 2D video applications. We find that Wi-Fi configuration parameters such as channel width, radio interface, access category, and priority queues are important for optimizing Wi-Fi networks for streaming immersive videos.more » « less
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One of the key enhancements in the upcoming 802.11ay standard for 60 GHz WLANs is the support for simultaneous transmissions of up to 8 data streams via SU- and MU-MIMO, which has the potential to enable data rates up to 100 Gbps. However, in spite of the key role MIMO is expected to play in 802.11ay, experimental evaluation of MIMO performance in 60 GHz WLANs has been limited to date, primarily due to lack of hardware supporting MIMO transmissions at millimeter wave frequencies. In this work, we fill this gap by conducting the first large-scale experimental evaluation of SU- and MU-MIMO performance in 60 GHz WLANs. Unlike previous studies, our study involves multiple environments with very different multipath characteristics. We analyze the performance in each environment, identify the factors that affect it, and compare it against the performance of SISO. Further, we seek to identify factors that can guide beam and user selection to limit the (often prohibitive in practice) overhead of exhaustive search. Finally, we propose two heuristics that perform both user and beam selection with low overhead, and show that they perform close to an Oracle solution and outperform previously proposed approaches in both static and mobile scenarios, regardless of the environment and number of users.more » « less
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ACM (Ed.)The well-known susceptibility of millimeter wave links to human blockage and client mobility has recently motivated researchers to propose approaches that leverage both 802.11ad radios (operating in the 60 GHz band) and legacy 802.11ac radios (operating in the 5 GHz band) in dual-band commercial off-the-shelf devices to simultaneously provide Gbps throughput and reliability. One such approach is via Multipath TCP (MPTCP), a transport layer protocol that is transparent to applications and requires no changes to the underlying wireless drivers. However, MPTCP (as well as other bundling approaches) have only been evaluated to date in 60 GHz WLANs with laptop clients. In this work, we port for first time the MPTCP source code to a dual-band smartphone equipped with an 802.11ad and an 802.11ac radio. We discuss the challenges we face and the system-level optimizations required to enable the phone to support Gbps data rates and yield optimal MPTCP throughput (i.e., the sum of the individual throughputs of the two radios) under ideal conditions. We also evaluate for first time the power consumption of MPTCP in a dual-band 802.11ad/ac smartphone and provide recommendations towards the design of an energy-aware MPTCP scheduler. We make our source code publicly available to enable other researchers to experiment with MPTCP in smartphones equipped with millimeter wave radios.more » « less