On the structure of user association patterns in wireless LANs

Authors:
Wei-jen Hsu;Debojyoti Dutta;Ahmed Helmy
Affiliations:
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Venue:
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Year:
2007

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Abstract

There has been a rapid increase in wireless LAN (WLAN) deployments, users and traffic in recent years. Thus there is an urgent need to mine the finegrained analysis of the structures and trends in wireless user association patterns. Such study could have significant impact on the design of behavior-aware services and protocols to create social networks based on similar behavioral patterns. In this paper, we propose new methods to understand such trends of user associations in a campus WLAN, and ways of quantifying those trends. Our goal is to quantify repetitive and consistent patterns of user association behavior.