The number of networked devices is increasing rapidly with numbers reaching 29.3 billion
by 2023, up from 18.4 billion in 2018. This increasing user density requires new …

IEEE 802.11 ah (also known as WiFi Halow) is a new WiFi standard for sub-l GHz
communications intended to address key challenges of the Internet of Things. IEEE 802 …

Abstract IEEE 802.11 ah, marketed as Wi-Fi HaLow, operates at Sub 1 GHz spectrum to
provide broad coverage, high throughput, energy efficiency and scalability. This makes IEEE …

Rapid growth of IoT networks as well as increasing number of wireless devices working in
the frequency band of 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, causes a saturation problem in wireless networks …

IEEE 801.11 Working Group is developing the sixth generation of wireless local area
network (WLAN) standards, denoted as 802.11 ax. The main goal of the new standard is to …

The wide range of Internet-of-Things applications has increased the number of connected
devices massively. This growth may cause more contention in accessing the channel …

IEEE 802.11 ah introduces the restricted access window (RAW) mechanism at the MAC
layer to mitigate the effect of collisions and to improve the network performance. In an …

Wireless local area networks (WLANs) empowered by IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) hold a dominant
position in providing Internet access thanks to their freedom of deployment and configuration …

The IEEE 802.11 standard's binary exponential back-off (BEB) algorithm is the prevailing
method for tackling the collision avoidance problem. Under the BEB paradigm, the back-off …

In 2016, the IEEE task group ah (TGah) published a new standard IEEE 802.11 ah, aimed at
providing network connectivity among a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices …