Hot-spot congestion relief and service guarantees in public-area wireless networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Fairness and load balancing in wireless LANs using association control
Proceedings of the 10th 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)
Throughput loss in task scheduling due to server state uncertainty
Proceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
The impact of association on the capacity of WLANs
WiOPT'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks
Designing a practical access point association protocol
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Joint frequency assignment and optimal association of stations to access points in IEEE 802.11 WLAN
Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
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Frequency channels are allocated to the access-points (APs) satisfying the co-channel interference in an IEEE 802.11 WLAN. Very few APs can be activated simultaneously with a conflict-free frequency assignment to them, due to limited number of frequencies. This may lead to a reduced aggregate throughput. We argue that aggregate throughput can significantly be improved by allowing some of the selected interfering APs to be activated with the same frequency but to operate in a fairly time-scheduled manner to satisfy the co-channel interference. We introduce the notion of class and cluster and based on it propose a combined frequency assignment, AP scheduling and association algorithm with the objective of maximizing the aggregate throughput. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior than both the algorithms that ignores the co-channel interference altogether by assuming proper frequency planning and that allows to activate only those APs for which a conflict-free frequency assignment exists.