Dynamic association in IEEE 802.11 based wireless mesh networks
ISWCS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
A hybrid decision approach for the association problem in heterogeneous networks
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
A game theoretical study of access point association in wireless mesh networks
Computer Communications
Atomic congestion games on graphs and their applications in networking
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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In IEEE 802.11 wireless networks, users associate with access points that can provide the best service quality. In this paper, we analyze the convergence and steady state performance of a practically well performing load-based user association scheme. The analysis is based on a novel game theoretical model, which extends the results on atomic congestion games. We prove the existence of and convergence to a Nash equilibrium for this game. The bounds on the efficiency of equilibrium compared to centralized optimum solutions are established under different system costs.