Analysis of Limits in Applying AP-QoS-based Wi-Fi Slicing for Real-Time Systems

Jin Hyun Kim, Hyonyoung Choi, Gangjin Kim, Yundo Choi, Tae-Won Ban, Se-Hoon Kim

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2021.48.6.723

Network slicing is a new network technology that guarantees the quality of network services according to application services or user’s types. Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.11-based LAN, is the mostly popularly used short-range wireless network and has been continually attracting more and more from users. Recently, the use of Wi-Fi by safety critical IoT devices, such as medical devices, has been drastically increasing. Moreover, enterprises require network slicing of Wi-Fi to introduce the provision of prioritized QoS of Wi-Fi depending on the service type of customer. This paper presents the analysis of the limits and difficulties in applying AP-QoS-based network slicing for hard real-time systems that demand temporal deterministic streaming services. In this paper, we have defined a formal framework to analyze QoS-providing IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Coordination Access and provide the worst-case streaming scenarios and thereby demonstrated why the temporal determinism of network streaming is broken. In addition, simulation results of AP-QoS-based network slicing using NS-3 are presented to show the limits and difficulties of the network slicing. Moreover, we present Wi-Fi network slicing techniques based on EDCA of AP-QoS for real-time systems through our technical report referenced in this paper.