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- Title
Temporary Access Selection Technology in WIFI Networks.
- Authors
Yang Lu; Xuezhi Tan; Yun Mo; Lin Ma
- Abstract
Currently, increasing numbers of access points (AP) are being deployed in enterprise offices, campuses and municipal downtowns for flexible Internet connectivity, but most of these access points are idle or redundant most of the time, which causes significant energy waste. Therefore, with respect to power conservation, applying energy efficient strategies in WIFI networks is strongly advocated. One feasible method is dynamically managing network resources, particularly APs, by powering devices on or off. However, when an AP is powered on, the device is initialized through a long boot time, during which period clients cannot be associated with it; therefore, the network performance would be greatly impacted. In this paper, based on a global view of an entire WLAN, we propose an AP selection technology, known as Temporary Access Selection (TAS). The criterion of TAS is a fusion metric consisting of two evaluation indexes which are based on throughput and battery life, respectively. TAS is both service and clients'preference specific through balancing the data rate, battery life and packet size. TAS also works well independently in traditional WLANs in which no energy efficient strategy is deployed. Moreover, this paper demonstrates the feasibility and performance of TAS through experiments and simulations with Network Simulator version 3 (NS3).
- Subjects
WIRELESS Internet; WIRELESS LANs; COMPUTER network resources; ENERGY consumption; DATA packeting; BIT rate
- Publication
KSII Transactions on Internet & Information Systems, 2014, Vol 8, Issue 12, p4269
- ISSN
1976-7277
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3837/tiis.2014.12.002