Dynamic load balancing through association control of mobile users in WiFi networks
- Type
- Article
- Citation
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, v.54, no.2, pp.342 - 348
- Issued Date
- 2008-05
- Abstract
- With the development of IEEE 802.11 AMC (Medium Access Control) protocols, efficient utilization of wireless local area networks (WLANs) has become a very important issue. In typical IEEE 802.11 networks, the association between mobile users (MUs) and access point (AP) is based on the signal strength information. As a result, it often results in the extremely unfair bandwidth allocation among MUs. In this paper, we propose a distributed association algorithm to achieve load balancing among the APs. The proposed algorithm gradually balances the AP loads for the available multiple bit rate choices in a distributed manner. We analyze the stability and overhead of the proposed algorithm, and show the improvement of the fairness via computer simulation. Additionally, we have implemented a prototype on a testbed to prove its feasibility(1).
- Publisher
- IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
- ISSN
- 0098-3063
- Appears in Collections:
- Department of AI > 1. Journal Articles
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