1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Bandwidth Management in Shared WLAN

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344674,
        author={Abolfazl  Nazari and Naser Yazdani and Naser Rezaee},
        title={Bandwidth Management in Shared WLAN},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2007},
        month={4},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344674}
    }
    
  • Abolfazl Nazari
    Naser Yazdani
    Naser Rezaee
    Year: 2007
    Bandwidth Management in Shared WLAN
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2006.344674
Abolfazl Nazari1, Naser Yazdani1, Naser Rezaee1
  • 1: ECE Department, University of Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In order to reduce cost and administration task, it is desirable for operators to share their WLAN infrastructure (W. Zhuang et al., 2003). In this paper, we focus on bandwidth management in shared WLANs. We propose an algorithm to allocate cell bandwidth to different operators in such a way that the traffic from one logical network can not affect throughput of the users from other ones. Due to its simplicity, this algorithm can be implemented in large WLANs that use Wi-Fi switches for ease of deployment and management of the network. We evaluated the performance of the proposed method by simulating the transmission of FTP and HTTP traffics. The results show that this method has an acceptable performance.