–Successive interference cancellation (SIC) may be a PHY capability that enables a receiver to decode packets that arrive at the same time. Whereas the technique is well known in communications literature, rising software system radio platforms are making sensible experimentation possible. This motivates us to check the extent of outturn gains potential with SIC from a Mac layer perspective and situations wherever such gains are value pursuing. We discover that contrary to our initial expectation, the gains aren't high once the bits of intrusive signals aren't best-known a priori to the receiver. Moreover, we have a tendency to observe that the scope for SIC gets squeezed by the advances in bitrates adaptation. Especially, our analysis shows that officious matched transmissions profit less from SIC than situations with many-to-one transmissions (such as when clients transfer information to a standard access point). In sight of this, we have a tendency to develop a SIC aware programming algorithmic rule that employs client pairing and power reduction to extract the most gains from SIC. We have a tendency to believe that our findings are useful tips for moving forward with SIC aware protocol research.