Expert system for open-loop power control of wireless local area networks

This paper considers an embedded fuzzy expert system for non-feedback uplink power control of wireless local area networks (WLANs). The main idea is to minimize the transmission power of the nodes while keeping the transmission errors at an acceptable level. In the developed method, receivers collect signal strength values which are used by the control systems to define an acceptable transmission power level. The functionality of the proposed solution is demonstrated with simulations, which prove that the use of the expert system to open-loop systems can significantly decrease transmission power, increase energy efficiency and decrease interference to adjacent access points and associated nodes.