TY - GEN
T1 - A holding access-point assignment algorithm for wireless local-area networks
AU - Tajima, Shigeto
AU - Funabiki, Nobuo
AU - Debnath, Sumon Kumar
AU - Higashino, Teruo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/12/19
Y1 - 2017/12/19
N2 - Nowadays, various types of access-points (APs) and hosts such as dedicated APs, laptop personal computers, and mobile terminals have been used in IEEE802.11 wireless local-area networks (WLANs). As a result, the optimal assignment of holding APs into the network field depending on the host type distribution has become very important to improve the network performance. In this paper, we formulate this holding access-point assignment problem as a combinatorial optimization problem and propose its heuristic algorithm. Because plural non-overlapping channels are available in IEEE802.11 WLANs, we extend the algorithm to finding the channel assignment to the APs such that the total interference among them is minimized. The effectiveness of our proposal is verified through simulations in three instances.
AB - Nowadays, various types of access-points (APs) and hosts such as dedicated APs, laptop personal computers, and mobile terminals have been used in IEEE802.11 wireless local-area networks (WLANs). As a result, the optimal assignment of holding APs into the network field depending on the host type distribution has become very important to improve the network performance. In this paper, we formulate this holding access-point assignment problem as a combinatorial optimization problem and propose its heuristic algorithm. Because plural non-overlapping channels are available in IEEE802.11 WLANs, we extend the algorithm to finding the channel assignment to the APs such that the total interference among them is minimized. The effectiveness of our proposal is verified through simulations in three instances.
KW - assignment algorithm
KW - channel
KW - combinatorial optimization problem
KW - holding access-point
KW - wireless local-area network
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U2 - 10.1109/ICCSN.2017.8230137
DO - 10.1109/ICCSN.2017.8230137
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049114618
T3 - 2017 9th IEEE International Conference on Communication Software and Networks, ICCSN 2017
SP - 367
EP - 371
BT - 2017 9th IEEE International Conference on Communication Software and Networks, ICCSN 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Communication Software and Networks, ICCSN 2017
Y2 - 6 May 2017 through 8 May 2017
ER -