期刊名称：International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Systems
印刷版ISSN：2229-3957
电子版ISSN：0976-9757
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：5
DOI：10.5121/ijdps.2011.2507
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Maximizing network throughput while providing fairness is one of the key challenges in wireless LANs (WLANs). Dense deployments of WLANs suffer from increased interference and, as a result, reduced capacity and wireless network conditions in general are diverse owing to both traffic and wireless channel variations. Hence effective mechanisms are required to exploit the diversity across a multiple access points and to provide a uniform load distribution in order to improve the QoS of users and to improve the overall composite capacity. In this paper, we propose a handoff scheme considering the current active application in use rather than a single fixed threshold value and dynamically changing the threshold value depending upon the currently active applications. In addition to it, we also propose a pro-active Load Balancing scheme which completely avoids unnecessary overloading of access points by considering the load at the target access point before associating with it.
关键词：WLANs; interference; Handoff; Fixed threshold; QoS; Load Balancing; Active applications
