A Predictive Analysis on the Influence of WiFi 6 in Fog Computing with OFDMA and MU-MIMO

Abstract

The recent research advancement of wireless protocols, cloud development services, and reduced hardware costs have launched a new dawn for cloud computing. Fog computing widens the cloud computing paradigm to the network’s edge and assists in the production and creation of multiple new Internet services and applications. Normally, IoT gateways are used under the IoT fog computing model to communicate data with IoT devices and the cloud. A plethora of wireless technologies exist, of that WiFi remains the ideal communication technology and WIFI6 the preferred protocol for fog in particular as it has various advantages over its predecessors like extended battery life, support for more than one device at a time with the help of OFDMA, simultaneous connection with multiple devices, increased data rates with the help of MU-MIMO, and the use of MPTL topology which makes connections easier and faster.