Skip-Correlation for Multi-Power Wireless Carrier Sensing

Carrier sensing is a key mechanism that enables decentralized sharing of unlicensed spectrum. However, carrier sensing in its current form is fundamentally unsuitable when devices transmit at different power levels, a scenario increasingly common given the diversity of Wi-Fi APs in the market and the need for Wi-Fi’s co-existence with new upcoming standards such as LAA/LWA.  The primary contribution of this paper is a novel carrier sensing mechanism — skip correlation — that extends carrier sensing to accommodate multiple transmit power levels. Through an FPGA based implementation on the WARP platform, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique in a variety of scenarios including support for backward compatibility.

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