Hot-Spot Congestion Relief in Public-Area Wireless Networks
WMCSA '02 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Fairness and load balancing in wireless LANs using association control
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Scalable and Robust WLAN Connectivity Using Access Point Array
DSN '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Matching Theory (North-Holland mathematics studies)
Matching Theory (North-Holland mathematics studies)
Improved access point selection
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Load Balancing in WLANs through IEEE 802.11k Mechanisms
ISCC '06 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
IQU: practical queue-based user association management for WLANs
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Facilitating access point selection in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Joint optimal access point selection and channel assignment in wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Terminal-centric ap selection algorithm based on frame retransmissions
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
End-to-end performance aware association mechanism for wireless municipal mesh networks
Computer Communications
Enhancing Mobile E-Witness with Access Point Selection Policies
ITNG '08 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
A Cross-Layer Framework for Association Control in Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Distributed Fair Access Point Selection for Multi-Rate IEEE 802.11 WLANs
IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
Multi-domain WLAN load balancing in WLAN/WPAN interference environments
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Load balancing for cellular/WLAN integrated networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Multimedia technology for pervasive computing environment
The Journal of Supercomputing
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Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) provide high-bandwidth wireless access, which makes it capable for multimedia services. A user in a WMN may be covered by multiple APs, while it should be associated with only one to access the Internet. Conventional IEEE 802.11 user-AP association mechanism for WLANs employs signal strength as the sole metric. However, this may lead to network congestion and performance degradation in multi-hop networks such as WMNs, especially for multimedia services that require a large bandwidth and a low latency. Thus AP association in WMNs becomes an important research issue. In this paper we propose a novel AP association approach LBAA, taking AP's load-balancing, WMN's multi-hop characteristic, and user's RSSI into consideration. We first propose a centralized algorithm and then extend it to a distributed one, with the latter one more practical and convenient for deployment. Network throughput and max---min user fairness are improved by LBAA. Performance evaluation demonstrating the benefits of our approach is given through a series of experiments in terms of collision probability, access bandwidth, end-to-end throughput, and average RSSI.