TY - GEN
T1 - A new ap-selection strategy for high density IEEE802.11 WLANs
AU - Wan, Xin
AU - Wang, Xingming
AU - Heo, Ung
AU - Choi, Jaeho
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Wireless local area networks are presently widely deployed so that different stations can potentially associate with an access point (AP). The AP selection strategy is one of the significant research areas for wireless local area networks. The selection strategy solves the relevant problem of which AP can be selected and associated with a station so that efficient resource utilization can be obtained. Rather than merely choosing the AP with the strongest received signal strength, however, we calculate the effective throughput for each neighboring AP and use the result as a basis for the AP selection. Referencing the throughput is better than referencing the signal strength because the network may contain a severe load imbalance. We performed computer simulations using the OPNET modeler in order to verify the performance of our scheme. The results show us that our proposed selection method outperforms the conventional one in terms of throughput.
AB - Wireless local area networks are presently widely deployed so that different stations can potentially associate with an access point (AP). The AP selection strategy is one of the significant research areas for wireless local area networks. The selection strategy solves the relevant problem of which AP can be selected and associated with a station so that efficient resource utilization can be obtained. Rather than merely choosing the AP with the strongest received signal strength, however, we calculate the effective throughput for each neighboring AP and use the result as a basis for the AP selection. Referencing the throughput is better than referencing the signal strength because the network may contain a severe load imbalance. We performed computer simulations using the OPNET modeler in order to verify the performance of our scheme. The results show us that our proposed selection method outperforms the conventional one in terms of throughput.
KW - Access point selection strategy
KW - Energy efficient scheme
KW - Load balancing
KW - Wireless mobile network
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/78649879314
U2 - 10.1109/CyberC.2010.20
DO - 10.1109/CyberC.2010.20
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:78649879314
SN - 9780769542355
T3 - Proceedings - 2010 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2010
SP - 52
EP - 58
BT - Proceedings - 2010 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2010
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2010
Y2 - 10 October 2010 through 12 October 2010
ER -