Raschella, A, Bouhafs, F, Seyedebrahimi, M, MacKay, M and Shi, Q (2017) Quality of Service Oriented Access Point Selection Framework for Large Wi-Fi Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 14 (2). pp. 441-455. ISSN 1932-4537

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Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of Access Point (AP) selection in large Wi-Fi networks. Unlike current solutions that rely on Received Signal Strength (RSS) to determine the best AP that could serve a wireless user’s request, we propose a novel framework that considers the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of the user’s data flow. The proposed framework relies on a function reflecting the suitability of a Wi-Fi AP to satisfy the QoS requirements of the data flow. The framework takes advantage of the flexibility and centralised nature of Software Defined Networking (SDN). A performance comparison of this algorithm developed through an SDN-based simulator shows significant achievements against other state of the art solutions in terms of provided QoS and improved wireless network capacity.

Item Type:	Article
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Uncontrolled Keywords:	1005 Communications Technologies, 0805 Distributed Computing
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	Computer Science & Mathematics
Publisher:	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Date Deposited:	09 Feb 2017 12:23
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 11:57
DOI or ID number:	10.1109/TNSM.2017.2678021
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5494

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