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
Bandwidth estimation in broadband access networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Using smart triggers for improved user performance in 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
The need for cross-layer information in access point selection algorithms
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
MDG: measurement-driven guidelines for 802.11 WLAN design
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
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
SMARTA: a self-managing architecture for thin access points
CoNEXT '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM CoNEXT conference
FatVAP: aggregating AP backhaul capacity to maximize throughput
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Available bandwidth-based association in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Wifi-reports: improving wireless network selection with collaboration
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Achievable throughput-based MAC layer handoff in IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing
ARES: an anti-jamming reinforcement system for 802.11 networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
A user-centric network management framework for high-density wireless LANs
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
Adaptive access points selection for 802.11 wireless networks
AsiaCSN '07 Proceedings of the Fourth IASTED Asian Conference on Communication Systems and Networks
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
Adaptive system for 802.11 scanning
INFOCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE international conference on Computer Communications Workshops
Traffic-aware decentralized AP selection for multi-rate in WLANs
ICACT'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advanced communication technology
Designing a practical access point association protocol
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international workshop on Mobility in the evolving internet architecture
Measurement-driven guidelines for 802.11 WLAN design
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Load balancing access point association schemes for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks
WASA'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Wireless algorithms, systems, and applications
A measurement-driven anti-jamming system for 802.11 networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A game theoretical study of access point association in wireless mesh networks
Computer Communications
An experimental evaluation of packet-level measurements of hidden traffic load
WWIC'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet 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
Load-balanced AP association in multi-hop wireless mesh networks
The Journal of Supercomputing
LOHAS: LOad balancing with fast handoff scheme on smartphones over ieee 802.11 wlans
Proceedings of the 11th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
A Combined Frequency Assignment and AP Scheduling for Throughput Maximization in IEEE 802.11 WLAN
Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia
Navigation-aware association control in vehicular wireless networks
Journal of High Speed Networks
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The performance experienced by wireless clients in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks heavily depends on the clients' ability to identify the Access Point (AP) that will offer the best service. The current AP affiliation mechanism implemented in most wireless clients is based on signal strength measurements received by the client from all the APs in its neighborhood. The client then affiliates with the AP from which it receives the strongest signal. It is well-known that such an algorithm can lead to sub-optimal performance, due to its ignorance of the load at different APs. In this work, we consider the problem of AP selection. We identify potential bandwidth as the metric based on which hosts should make affiliation decisions, and define it as the (MAC-layer) bandwidth that the client is likely to receive after affiliating with a particular AP. We further limit ourselves to the use of passive measurements that do not require an end-host to affiliate with the AP, thus allowing the end-host to simultaneously evaluate the potential bandwidth to multiple APs in range. This can also facilitate more informed roaming decisions. We propose a methodology for the estimation of potential upstream and downstream bandwidth between a client and an AP based on measurements of delay incurred by 802.11 Beacon frames from the AP. Preliminary experiments conducted in a controlled environment demonstrate that the proposed methodology looks promising, yielding fairly accurate results under varying conditions.