Autonomic management for capacity improvement in wireless networks

Authors:
Gilbert Sawma;Ryad Ben-El-Kezadri;Issam Aib;Guy Pujolle
Affiliations:
LIP6 Laboratory, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France;LIP6 Laboratory, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France and ENSI/CRISTAL Laboratory, University of Manouba, Tunisia;David R.C School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada;LIP6 Laboratory, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Venue:
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper presents an Autonomic Load Balancing Algorithm (ALBA) which enhances resource allocation in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). ALBA offers autonomic management capabilities to access points that ensure the accommodation of more user traffic and an overall network capacity improvement compared to default signal strength based connectivity. Simulations with VoIP traffic over an agglomeration of WLANs show consistent behaviour among neighbouring access points and substantial performance gain in terms of call blocking rate.