A short time after the official launch of WiFi 6, IEEE 802.11 working groups along with
the WiFi Alliance are already designing its successor in the wireless local area network (WLAN)
ecosystem: WiFi 7. With the IEEE 802.11be amendment as one of its main constituent parts, future
WiFi 7 aims to include time-sensitive networking (TSN) capabilities to support low latency and ultrareliability in license-exempt spectrum bands, enabling many new Internet of Things scenarios. This
article first introduces ...
A short time after the official launch of WiFi 6, IEEE 802.11 working groups along with
the WiFi Alliance are already designing its successor in the wireless local area network (WLAN)
ecosystem: WiFi 7. With the IEEE 802.11be amendment as one of its main constituent parts, future
WiFi 7 aims to include time-sensitive networking (TSN) capabilities to support low latency and ultrareliability in license-exempt spectrum bands, enabling many new Internet of Things scenarios. This
article first introduces the key features of IEEE 802.11be, which are then used as the basis to discuss
how TSN functionalities could be implemented in WiFi 7. Finally, the benefits and requirements of
the most representative Internet of Things low-latency use cases for WiFi 7 are reviewed: multimedia,
healthcare, industrial, and transport.
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