TR2021-035

IEEE 802.19.3 Standardization for Coexistence of IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g Systems in Sub-1 GHz Frequency Bands


    •  Nagai, Y., Sumi, T., Guo, J., Orlik, P.V., Mineno, H., "IEEE 802.19.3 Standardization for Coexistence of IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g Systems in Sub-1 GHz Frequency Bands", Information Processing Society of Japan/Consumer Device and System Transaction, Vol. 11, No. 5, May 2021.
      BibTeX TR2021-035 PDF
      • @article{Nagai2021may,
      • author = {Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Guo, Jianlin and Orlik, Philip V. and Mineno, Hiroshi},
      • title = {IEEE 802.19.3 Standardization for Coexistence of IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g Systems in Sub-1 GHz Frequency Bands},
      • journal = {Information Processing Society of Japan/Consumer Device and System Transaction},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 11,
      • number = 5,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-035}
      • }
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  • Research Areas:

    Communications, Optimization, Signal Processing

Abstract:

Low power wide area wireless communication technologies are attracting attention particularly from various IoT applications. IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g are two wireless technologies designed for outdoor IoT applications and installed on consumer devices and systems, for which both technologies operate in frequencies below 1 GHz (Sub-1 GHz Band). In addition, both technologies have communication range up to 1000 meters. Therefore, IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g networks are likely to coexist. Our simulation results using standard defined coexistence mechanisms show that IEEE 802.11ah network can severely interfere with IEEE 802.15.4g network and lead to significant packet loss in IEEE 802.15.4g network. IEEE 802.15.4g network can also impact on packet latency in IEEE 802.11ah network. Accordingly, IEEE New Standards Committee and Standard Board formed IEEE 802.19.3 Task Group in December 2018 to develop an IEEE 802 standard for the coexistence of IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g systems in the Sub-1 GHz frequency bands to guide product deployment. The authors of this paper have been actively leading this standard development. This paper introduces IEEE 802.19.3 standardization activities to address coexistence issues of IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g systems and summarizes our technical contributions for interference mitigation. Simulation results show that our coexistence technologies achieve better coexistence performance.

 

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    •  AWARD    Best Paper Award of 2022 IPSJ Transactions on Consumer Devices & Systems
      Date: March 27, 2023
      Awarded to: Yukimasa Nagai, Takenori Sumi, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik, Hiroshi Mineno
      MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Philip V. Orlik; Kieran Parsons
      Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
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      • MELCO/MERL research paper “IEEE 802.19.3 Standardization for Coexistence of IEEE 802.11ah and IEEE 802.15.4g Systems in Sub-1GHz Frequency Bands” has won the Best Paper Award of the 2022 IPSJ Transactions on Consumer Devices and Systems. The Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) award was established in 1970 and is conferred on the authors of particularly excellent papers, which are published in the IPSJ journals and transactions. Our paper was published by the IPSJ Transaction on Consumer Device and System Vol. 29 in 2021 and authors are Yukimasa Nagai, Takenori Sumi, Jianlin Guo, Philip Orlik and Hiroshi Mineno.
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