Balancing Load of APs by Concurrent Association of Every Wireless Node with Many APs

Abstract— In this paper we propose a novel method for associating Wireless Mobile Nodes (WMNs) to Access Points (APs) in busy Wireless access networks. The proposed method associates each WMN with many APs for mitigating load balancing problem in hot-spots. The proposed method assumes that cmpTCP-type transport protocols are used in the end-points. The connections are established and maintained with the help of functionalities of emerging IEEE 802.21 standard. An analytical model for the proposed system has been developed. Numerical evaluation of the closed form solution of the proposed model shows that the proposed model will out perform best WMN-AP association method, if the all WMNs are within the communication range of the APs. The prosed system keeps the AP utilization same but reduces expected service queue length of APs, and reduces expected waiting time for the WMNs.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICNS
• Authors: Dilip Sarkar, Uttam K. Sarkar
• Keywords: Busy Wireless Access, Computer Networks, ICNS 2009, Load Balancing Problem, Wireless Mobile Nodes