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Enhancing Wi-Fi 6 spectrum access control with a heuristic OFDMA back-off mechanism
Department of Electrical Engineering, Bahria University, Islamabad (PAK).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0161-8916
Department of Computer Science, Bahria University, Islamabad (Pak).
University West, Department of Engineering Science, Division of computer engineering and computer science. (Datateknik)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9756-1909
College of Computer and Information Science, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh (SAU).
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2025 (English)In: Results in Engineering (RINENG), ISSN 2590-1230, Vol. 26, p. 1-15, article id 105086Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The IEEE 802.11ax standard, known as Wi-Fi 6, employs a centralized, multiuser, uplink Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)-based Random Access (UORA) mechanism to improve user efficiency and network capacity in dense environments. In Wi-Fi 6, UORA functions as a contention-based access mechanism within the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, enabling multiple users to transmit simultaneously over shared Resource Units (RUs) in the OFDMA-enabled spectrum. However, the UORA’s random access behavior can lead to increased channel collisions and low spectrum utilization in dense user scenarios. To address these challenges, we propose a Heuristic OFDMA Back-Off (HOBO-UORA) mechanism in Wi-Fi 6 networks. The proposed HOBO-UORA approach leverages configured spectrum bandwidth or RUs to implement global control over the OFDMA Back-Off procedure. The proposed scheme implements an Additive Increase/Additive Decrease (AI/AD) mechanism to dynamically optimize UORA channel efficiency by reducing idle RUs in sparse networks and minimizing collision probability in highly dense environments. Detailed simulation results demonstrate that HOBO-UORA significantly improves Wi-Fi 6 network performance, achieving a 27% throughput increase and an 18% spectrum efficiency gain compared to standard UORA solutions. HOBO-UORA adds minimal overhead—just < 2% computational at the AP and 0.006% spectral in Wi Fi 6 networks.

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2025. Vol. 26, p. 1-15, article id 105086
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IEEE 802.11ax, Wi-Fi 6, Spectrum access, OFDMA
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-23412DOI: 10.1016/j.rineng.2025.105086ISI: 001490652100007Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105004550414OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-23412DiVA, id: diva2:1963402
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