TY - GEN
T1 - Dynamic access-point configuration approach for elastic wireless local-area network system
AU - Islam, Md Manowarul
AU - Al Mamun, Md Selim
AU - Funabiki, Nobuo
AU - Kuribayashi, Minoru
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI (16K00127).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2018/4/23
Y1 - 2018/4/23
N2 - Recently, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) have increased popularity around the world, because users can easily access to the Internet through associations with access points (APs), using mobile devices like smart phones, tablets, and laptops. In a WLAN network, it is common that the number of users is always changing by time and they are not evenly distributed in the field. To optimize the number of active APs and the host associations in the network depending on traffic demands from users, previously, we proposed the AP configuration algorithm for the elastic WLAN system. Unfortunately, this algorithm can find the solution for the fixed user state in the network, although it is usual that users repeat joining and leaving the network. In this paper, we propose the extension of the AP configuration algorithm to deal with this dynamic nature of the WLAN network. Here, it is considered that at most one host may join or leave at the same time, and any communicating AP cannot be suspended and any communicating host cannot change its associated AP. Through numerical experiments using the WIMNET simulator in two network instances, the effectiveness of the proposal is demonstrated.
AB - Recently, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) have increased popularity around the world, because users can easily access to the Internet through associations with access points (APs), using mobile devices like smart phones, tablets, and laptops. In a WLAN network, it is common that the number of users is always changing by time and they are not evenly distributed in the field. To optimize the number of active APs and the host associations in the network depending on traffic demands from users, previously, we proposed the AP configuration algorithm for the elastic WLAN system. Unfortunately, this algorithm can find the solution for the fixed user state in the network, although it is usual that users repeat joining and leaving the network. In this paper, we propose the extension of the AP configuration algorithm to deal with this dynamic nature of the WLAN network. Here, it is considered that at most one host may join or leave at the same time, and any communicating AP cannot be suspended and any communicating host cannot change its associated AP. Through numerical experiments using the WIMNET simulator in two network instances, the effectiveness of the proposal is demonstrated.
KW - Access point
KW - Communicative active host
KW - Dynamic host association
KW - Elastic wireless local-area network
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U2 - 10.1109/CANDAR.2017.20
DO - 10.1109/CANDAR.2017.20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050145687
T3 - Proceedings - 2017 5th International Symposium on Computing and Networking, CANDAR 2017
SP - 216
EP - 222
BT - Proceedings - 2017 5th International Symposium on Computing and Networking, CANDAR 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th International Symposium on Computing and Networking, CANDAR 2017
Y2 - 19 November 2017 through 22 November 2017
ER -