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Probe Request based Load Balancing Metric with Timely Handoffs for WLANs

  • Jongbum Ryou
  • , Ben Lee
  • , Chansu Yu
  • , Myungchul Kim
  • , Soon-Joo Hyun
  • , Seung-Min Park
  • , Won-Tae Kim
    • Oregon State University
    • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Abstract

    "As the number of mobile devices accessing largescale WLANs such as campus and metropolitan area networks increases, the need for load balancing among the cells becomes crucial. In addition, the network must also support some minimum handoff tolerance defined by an application. This paper proposes a new metric that provides load balance as well as timely handoffs for WLANs by taking into account both direct and hidden node collisions.

    Disciplines

    • Electrical and Computer Engineering

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