11ax summary preamble

WIFI6 Summary

Improvement

• capacity
• effeciency

Achievement

• Eight spatial streams in the 5 GHz band

in conjunction with four spatial streams in the 2.4 GHz band, yields up to 12 streams of Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, significantly boosting overall spectrum use.

• MU-MIMO

uses spatial multiplexing to increase the number of simultaneous users of the same frequency resources, increasing capacity (i.e. system throughput), time efficiency and spectral efficiency. With 12 spatial
streams available for MU-MIMO instead of four, this is a big upgrade for Wi-Fi 6 over Wi-Fi 5.

• OFDMA

reduces overhead and contention, reduces packet-to-packet latency, and increases efficiency in congested conditions. OFDMA splits the total available spectrum among client devices.

• Triggering.

A Wi-Fi 6 access point uses triggers to inform client devices how to make use of time and frequency resources, modulation, 
coding and spatial streams to minimize contention and improve capacity. 
Wi-Fi 6 can split bandwidth among low data rate clients, it can use spatial diversity with MU-MIMO to increase overall
bandwidth, and it can do both in combination, a defining attribute of Wi-Fi 6.

• 1024-QAM

higher-order modulation that delivers increased throughput.

• Spatial reuse(BSS color)

enhances Wi-Fi coexistence with other, nearby Wi-Fi networks.

• Target Wake Time (TWT)

reduces power consumption.

• 20-MHz-only channels’ allows IoT sensors to use spectrum more efficiently.
• Wi-Fi 6 extends the new features to the congested 2.4 GHz band.

Protocal Summary

• 5 to 7.125 GHz bands

  • An HE STA is also a VHT STA
  • An HE STA shall support a 20 MHz operating channel width
  • An HE STA that is not a 20 MHz-only non-AP HE STA shall support operation with a 40 MHz and 80 MHz channel width
  • An HE STA may support operation with a 160 MHz and 80+80 MHz channel width

• 2.4 GHz band

  • An HE STA is also an HT STA
  • An HE STA shall support a 20 MHz operating channel width
  • An HE STA may suppzort a 40 MHz operating channel width

• PHY

  • Mandatory support for DL and UL OFDMA
  • Mandatory support for DL MU-MIMO by an HE AP that supports 4 or more spatial streams when MU-MIMO is done on the entire PPDU bandwidth
  • Mandatory support for DL MU-MIMO reception for a non-AP HE STA(#15851)
  • Optional support for the HE sounding protocol to support beamforming
  • Optional support for HE-MCSs 10 and 11
  • Optional support for UL MU-MIMO
  • Optional support for preamble puncturing

• MAC

  • Optional support for dynamic fragmentation levels 1, 2 and 3
  • In an AP, mandatory support for the role of operating mode indication (OMI) responder and optional support for the role of OMI initiator
  • In a non-AP STA, optional support for the roles of OMI initiator and responder
  • In an AP, optional support for two NAV operation
  • In a non-AP STA, mandatory support for two NAV operation
  • In an AP, mandatory support for individual target wake time (TWT) operation
  • In a non-AP STA, optional support for individual TWT operation
  • Optional support for broadcast TWT
  • Optional support for UL OFDMA-based random access (UORA)
  • Optional support for spatial reuse operation
  • Optional support for multi-TID A-MPDU operation
  • Optional support for ER BSS
  • Mandatory support for multiple BSSID operation in a non-AP STA
  • Optional support for the NDP feedback report

Ref

• Draft P802.11ax_D3.3

  • 4. General description

• wikipedia