发表机构
Universitat Pompeu Fabra; AGH University of Krakow（庞培法布拉大学; 克拉科夫AGH大学）
机构由 AI 辅助整理，请以论文原文为准。AI 中文总结
本文综述了IEEE 802.11bx（WIN）中AI就绪Wi-Fi 9的进展，从协议、平台和流量三个维度分析AI角色，并通过案例研究探讨扩展EDCA以支持AI流量区分。
AI 中文摘要
Wi-Fi 9预计将超越单纯的通信功能，提供诸如感知或计算等新服务。在此之际，人工智能（AI）在802.11bx修正案（名为WLAN智能网络（WIN））的定义中正扮演着主导角色。在本教程中，我们调研了IEEE 802.11标准化中迈向Wi-Fi 9的最新进展，追溯了推动AI就绪Wi-Fi 9的驱动因素和技术进步。随后，我们从三个互补维度审视了AI的角色，即：AI作为协议（AI应用于Wi-Fi的PHY/MAC操作）、AI作为平台（Wi-Fi基础设施被重新用于提供AI计算）以及AI作为流量（AI流需要新的流量处理策略），并讨论了各维度的候选特性和开放挑战。作为AI作为流量范式的具体例证，我们呈现了一个关于AI流量区分的案例研究，在其中我们探索了当前增强分布式信道接入（EDCA）的潜在扩展，以支持新的AI流量流。
英文摘要
Wi-Fi 9 is expected to go beyond mere communication and provide new services such as sensing or computation. At this juncture, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking a leading role in the definition of the 802.11bx amendment, named WLAN Intelligent Networking (WIN). In this tutorial, we survey the recent progress made toward Wi-Fi 9 within IEEE 802.11 standardization, tracing the drivers and technological advances that motivate an AI-ready Wi-Fi 9. We then examine AI's role along three complementary dimensions, i.e., AI as a protocol (AI is applied to Wi-Fi's PHY/MAC operation), AI as a platform (Wi-Fi infrastructure is repurposed to provide AI computation), and AI as traffic (AI flows call for new traffic-handling policies), and discuss candidate features and open challenges along each. As a concrete illustration of the AI as traffic paradigm, we present a case study on AI traffic differentiation, where we explore a potential extension of the current Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) to support new AI traffic flows.
