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Current Status and Directions of IEEE 802.11be, the Future Wi-Fi 7

E. Khorov, I. Levitsky, I. Akyildiz,
2020

While customers rivet their eyes on Wi-Fi 6, in the bowels of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group that creates Wi-Fi standards, the next generation Wi-Fi is being developed. At the very first sight, the new IEEE 802.11be amendment to the Wi-Fi standard is nothing but scaled 11ax with doubled bandwidth and the increased number of spatial streams, which together provide data rates as high as 40 Gbps. A bit deeper dive into the 802.11 activities reveals that 11be will support real-time applications. In reality, 11be introduces many more revolutionary changes to Wi-Fi, which will form a basement for further Wi-Fi evolution. Although by now (May 2020), the development process is at the very early phase without any draft specification, the analysis of the discussion in the 802.11 Working Group gives insights into the main innovations of 11be. In addition to the ones above, they include native multi-link operation, channel sounding optimization that opens the door for massive MIMO, advanced PHY and MAC techniques, the cooperation of various access points. The paper analyzes hundreds of features proposed for the new technology, focusing on the open problems that can be solved by the researchers who want to contribute to the development of 802.11be.

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  • E. Khorov
    Wireless Networks Laboratory, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 127051, Moscow, Russia, School of Radio Engineering and Computer Technology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141701, Dolgoprudny, Russia
  • I. Levitsky
    Wireless Networks Laboratory, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 127051, Moscow, Russia, School of Radio Engineering and Computer Technology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141701, Dolgoprudny, Russia
  • I. Akyildiz
    Wireless Networks Laboratory, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 127051, Moscow, Russia, Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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