Research Article

Adaptive Two-Level Frame Aggregation for Fairness and Efficiency in IEEE 802.11n Wireless LANs

Table 2

Notations and values of PHY/MAC headers and timing parameters.

NotationDescriptionValue

Subframe header size (for A-MSDU)14 bytes
MAC header size34 bytes
Padding size0~3 bytes
MPDU delimiter size (for A-MPDU)4 bytes
Frame check sequence (FCS) size4 bytes
PHY header transmission time32 s
Short interframe space (SIFS)16 s
Distributed interframe space (DIFS)34 s
Slot time9 s