Research Article
The Impact of Association on the Capacity of WLANs
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291644, author={Thomas Bonald and Ali Ibrahim and James Roberts}, title={The Impact of Association on the Capacity of WLANs}, proceedings={7th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={WIOPT}, year={2009}, month={10}, keywords={WLAN Association Performance}, doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291644} }- Thomas Bonald
Ali Ibrahim
James Roberts
Year: 2009
The Impact of Association on the Capacity of WLANs
WIOPT
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2009.5291644
Abstract
This paper contributes to the definition of an association policy for a multi-channel, multiple AP WLAN that depends on both physical rate and realised throughput. We show that existing proposals are inefficient when several APs share the same channel and define a new policy that is demonstrated to be close to optimal. Policies are compared through their traffic capacity defined as the network stability limit. We determine this capacity analytically using the fluid limit method for some simple network configurations deriving insight into the structure of the optimal policy. The quasi-optimality of our proposal is verified by simulation of a more complex network configuration.
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