Title
A Modified Active Access-Point Selection Algorithm Considering Link Speed Change in IEEE 802.11n for Wireless Mesh Networks
Abstract
As an inexpensive, scalable Internet-access wireless network, we have studied the architecture, protocols, and design optimizations of the wireless Internet-access mesh network (WIMNET) that uses multiple access-points (APs) connected by wireless links. WIMNET can improve the dependability to failures of links and/or APs by allocating APs redundantly in the network field. Because redundant APs can increase the operational cost and degrade the performance due to increasing radio interferences, only the necessary APs for connections between the hosts and the Internet gateway should be activated at communications. Previously, we have defined the active AP selection problem of selecting the minimum number of active APs, and proposed its heuristic algorithm, assuming that every link has the same constant speed for simplicity. However, our preliminary experiments found that the link speed is greatly affected by the distance in the high-speed IEEE802.11n protocol that has recently become popular. In this paper, we propose a modification of the active AP selection algorithm to consider the link speed change, where we introduce a new design parameter for WIMNET to select links that have sufficient throughputs. We verify the effectiveness of our modified algorithm through simulations in four instances using the WIMNET simulator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CISIS.2013.128
Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
modified active access-point selection,active ap selection algorithm,active ap selection problem,active aps,redundant aps,link speed,necessary aps,aps redundantly,wireless mesh networks,heuristic algorithm,constant speed,wimnet simulator,routing,radio interference,algorithm,protocol,wireless communication,protocols,wireless mesh network,optimization,estimation,internet,throughput,costing
Wireless network,Mesh networking,Wireless,Computer science,Heuristic (computer science),Selection algorithm,Computer network,Internetworking,IEEE 802,Wireless mesh network,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-4992-7
2
0.42
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nobuo Funabiki122769.87
Sho Fujita282.49
Toru Nakanishi321038.25
Kan Watanabe45010.19