Paper Info
Title
Optimum Association Of Mobile Wireless Devices With A Wlan-3g Access Network
Abstract
In this paper, we consider the problem of association of wireless stations (STAs) with an access network served by a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a 3G cellular network. There is a set of WLAN Access Points (APs) and a set of 3G Base Stations (BSs) and a number of STAs each of which needs to be associated with one of the APs or one of the BSs. We concentrate on downlink bulk elastic transfers. Each association provides each STA with a certain transfer rate. We evaluate an association on the basis of the sum log utility of the transfer rates and seek the utility maximizing association. We also obtain the optimal time scheduling of service from a 3G BS to the associated STAs. We propose a fast iterative heuristic algorithm to compute an association. Numerical results show that our algorithm converges in a few steps yielding an association that is within 1% (in objective value) of the optimal (obtained through exhaustive search); in most cases the algorithm yields an optimal solution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ICC.2006.255064
2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS, VOLS 1-12
Keywords
Field
DocType
wireless local area network,throughput,heuristic algorithm,cellular network,downlink,base station,base stations,access network,signal to noise ratio,exhaustive search
Base station,Wireless,Computer science,Heuristic (computer science),Computer network,Cellular network,Wi-Fi,Throughput,Access network,Telecommunications link
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
13
2.24
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
K. Premkumar1665.04
Anurag Kumar264252.38