2 research outputs found
Decentralized AP Selection in Large-Scale Wireless LANs Considering Multi-AP Interference
Densification of access points (APs) in wireless local area networks (WLANs)
increases the interference and the contention domains of each AP due to
multiple overlapped basic service sets (BSSs). Consequently, high interference
from multiple co-channel BSS at the target AP impairs system performance. To
improve system performance in the presence of multi-BSSs interference, we
propose a decentralized AP selection scheme that takes interference at the
candidate APs into account and selects AP that offers best
signal-interference-plus noise ratio (SINR). In the proposed algorithm, the AP
selection process is distributed at the user stations (STAs) and is based on
the estimated SINR in the downlink. Estimating SINR in the downlink helps
capture the effect of interference from neighboring BSSs or APs. Based on a
simulated large-scale 802.11 network, the proposed scheme outperforms the
strongest signal first (SSF) AP selection scheme used in current 802.11
standards as well as the mean probe delay (MPD) AP selection algorithm in [3];
it achieves 99% and 43% gains in aggregate throughput over SSF and MPD,
respectively. While increasing STA densification, the proposed scheme is shown
to increase aggregate network performance.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figure
A Review of Software-Defined WLANs: Architectures and Central Control Mechanisms
The significant growth in the number of WiFi-enabled devices as well as the
increase in the traffic conveyed through wireless local area networks (WLANs)
necessitate the adoption of new network control mechanisms. Specifically, dense
deployment of access points, client mobility, and emerging QoS demands bring
about challenges that cannot be effectively addressed by distributed
mechanisms. Recent studies show that software-defined WLANs (SDWLANs) simplify
network control, improve QoS provisioning, and lower the deployment cost of new
network control mechanisms. In this paper, we present an overview of SDWLAN
architectures and provide a qualitative comparison in terms of features such as
programmability and virtualization. In addition, we classify and investigate
the two important classes of centralized network control mechanisms: (i)
association control (AsC) and (ii) channel assignment (ChA). We study the basic
ideas employed by these mechanisms, and in particular, we focus on the metrics
utilized and the problem formulation techniques proposed. We present a
comparison of these mechanisms and identify open research problems