Ilya Levitsky – False Protection of Real-Time Traffic With Quieting in Wi-Fi 7 Networks

Real-time application, such as gaming, remote sensing and control, virtual reality applications, and others, steadly enter our daily lives. Their key requirement is low latency, which is challenging to provide in wireless local access networks. The upcoming Wi-Fi 7 technology will introduce the Restricted Target Wake Time (R-TWT) mechanism that would specifically tackle the low latency problem. However, Wi-Fi 7 networks will be heterogeneous: both new and legacy devices will coexist there. To protect R-TWT from transmissions of legacy devices, the existing Quieting Framework is to be used. The question is whether existing devices truly support the Quieting Framework so that they obey the rules aimed to assist real-time traffic service. This talk will explain how this question has been put to the test. In the talk the scale and severety of the problem will be unravelled and potential solutions will be discussed. Bio: Ilya Levitsky received his BS degree and MS degree in applied mathematics and physics f