Advantages of WiFi 6 | disadvantages of WiFi 6, 802.11 ax
This page covers advantages and disadvantages of WiFi 6 802.11 ax. It mentions benefits or advantages of wifi 6 and drawbacks or disadvantages of wifi 6.
What is Wifi-6 or 802.11 ax?
Introduction:
• IEEE 802.11 ax technology is 6th generation of WiFi and hence it is known as Wifi-6. Due to its high efficiency performance, it is also known as HEW (High Efficiency WLAN).
• It is developed to overcome limitations of 802.11ac such as contention based uplink access etc.
• 802.11 ax offers better efficiency, network capacity, performance and user experience at reduced latency.
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Following are the features of WiFi-6 (i.e. IEEE 802.11 ax ) wireless technology.
• Higher modulation scheme such as 1024-QAM
• More number of OFDM subcarriers in a symbol or long OFDM symbol
• Multiplexing users using MU-MIMO concept both in the uplink and downlink
• Beamforming and OFDMA technique
• 8 simultaneous MU-MIMO streams
• Uplink scheduling without any contention
• BSS color codes
• Use of both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands
• Refer WLAN802.11 ax tutorial >>
802.11 ax (i.e. WiFi 6) physical layer supports different bandwidth options such as 20 MHz, 40 MHz, 80 MHz, 80+80 MHz and 160 MHz. It supports FFT sizes e.g. 256, 512, 1024 and 2048. The subcarrier spacing is 78.125KHz. The symbol duration is 12.8 µs + 0.8/1.6/3.2 µs CP.
WiFi 6的好处或优势
Following are the benefits oradvantages of WiFi 6or 802.11 ax technology :
➨It has been developed to deliver 40% high peak data rates using single client device. Average throughput per user is improved by at least 4 times in dense environments.
➨It offers four times increase in network efficiency compare to 802.11ac.
➨It is backward compatible with 802.11n and 802.11ac devices.
➨It uses OFDMA and hence multiple users can transmit at the same. The OFDMA based scheduling helps in reducing overhead and latency both.
➨The battery life of 802.11 ax client devices have been enhanced due to introduction of new feature called TWT (Target Wake Time). TWT feature allows client devices to sleep and wake up at scheduled times.
➨Mitigation of co-channel interference is possible using BSS color codes. This codes help 11ax stations to identify transmission from another network.
➨It offers robust high efficiency signaling for better operation at significantly lower RSSI.
➨It performs well both the the indoor and outdoor environments. To achieve the same, it uses longer symbol duration and cyclic prefix (CP) in outdoor environment where as it uses shorter CP in indoor environment.
Drawbacks or disadvantages of WiFi 6
Following are the drawbacks ordisadvantages of WiFi 6or 802.11 ax technology :
➨OFDM subcarrier spacing is narrower at 78.125 KHz. This means good phase noise oscillators and highly linear RF front ends are essential.
➨As 1024-QAM is used to achieve higher data rates, EVM specification is tight.
➨Tight frequency synchronization and clock offset correction are required to achieve better performance.
➨Moreover WiFi 6 stations maintain frame timing based on their clocks. This is essential as their transmissions should be as per trigger frames and scheduling.
➨写作这一页的时候,WiFi 6是博士aft stage. This will be the major hurdle for developers working on the product design to meet the market demand.
In order to understand advantages of wifi 6 , one has to understand difference between previouswifi versions >>and also need to refer advantages and disadvantages of wifi 5 i.e.802.11ac >>technology.
WLAN 802.11 ax i.e. WiFi 6 tutorial related links
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RU in 802.11ax
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TWT power save mode in 802.11ax
EVM specification in 802.11ax
802.11ax Speed calculator
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