On the performance of ad hoc networks with beamforming antennas
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
MiSer: an optimal low-energy transmission strategy for IEEE 802.11a/h
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Link-adaptation and Transmit Power Control for Unicast and Multicast in IEEE 802.11a/h/e WLANs
LCN '03 Proceedings of the 28th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks
Self-management in chaotic wireless deployments
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Weighted coloring based channel assignment for WLANs
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Inter-Access point communications for distributed resource management in 802.11 networks
WMASH '06 Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Interference analysis and transmit power control in IEEE 802.11a/h wireless LANs
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Implications of power control in wireless networks: a quantitative study
PAM'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
DMesh: Incorporating Practical Directional Antennas in Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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The common practice in wireless networking optimization is to address a problem domain, such as channel assignment or transmit power control, and test it across various environments, topologies and traffic rates. This approach, however, provides only a limited context for researchers and administrators, who must decide not only the best combination, but also the best ordering of these independently derived and tested solutions. This work presents a system architecture and methodology for determining the best features of a configuration of optimizations. These techniques are used to evaluate the joint application of several optimization strategies from five optimization domains, including: channel assignment, association control, transmit power control, bit-rate adaptation and beam form selection. Results from the simulation and field deployment of a 45x45 meter outdoor WLAN show that for the tested scenario: (1) channel assignment should precede association control, (2) minimizing transmit power is ineffective, (3) greedy channel assignment outperforms the Hsum algorithm, (4) load balancing across APs is not significant and (5) null steering is ineffective.