Title
A Multi-dimension Measurement Study of a Large Scale Campus WiFi Network.
Abstract
The growing trend of wireless devices and WiFi networks poses significant management challenges to network administrators. Characterizing WiFi user behavior and understanding WiFi network usage pattern are helpful to identify the management challenges so that network administrators could manage WiFi networks more efficiently. In this work, we collect comprehensive datasets, i.e., DHCP dataset, AAA dataset, SNMP dataset of ACs in a large campus WiFi network. We provide a detailed measurement study from multiple dimensions, i.e., server plane, temporal plane, spatial plane and traffic plane. We observe that the WiFi network under study is far from optimal. First, the phenomenon of IP waste is severe due to the isolation between DHCP server and AAA server. Second, current deployment of network infrastructure resources is based on network administrators' experience and it results in that the WiFi performance varies a lot across different areas. Furthermore, we also study the user behavior with different types of devices and in different kinds of buildings. Our observations indicate that the WiFi network could be improved and managed more efficiently from multiple dimensions. We believe that this measurement study is helpful for network administrators and researchers to understand more about large scale WiFi networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/LCN.2018.8638246
LCN
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wireless fidelity,IP networks,Servers,Buildings,Wireless communication,Internet,Authentication
Authentication,Wireless,Software deployment,Computer science,Server,Computer network,Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol,Multiple time dimensions,The Internet,Distributed computing,Simple Network Management Protocol
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-4413-3
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Congcong Miao1314.69
Jilong Wang25719.88
Jessie Hui Wang311820.10
Jun Zhang41102188.11
Weiwei Zhou513.07
Shengchao Liu610.71