Configuration of the Group Membership on EDCA-enabled IEEE 802.11ah Networks

The Internet of Things (IoT) is making its way into most aspects of our daily lives, pushing for the requirements of more robust communication services. For this reason, the IEEE 802.11ah standard, also known as Wi-Fi HaLow, has been developed, seeking to deal with dense multiservice wireless networks. This paper addresses the performance of the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) and Restricted Access Window (RAW) mechanisms in terms of four metrics: the throughput, the number of transmitted packets, the number of collisions and the packet transmission latency. The objective of this work is to evaluate the performance of EDCA-enabled IEEE 802.11ah Networks and more importantly to define the best multi-priority grouping strategy.