Autonomic Management for Capacity Improvement in Wireless Networks

Author

Sawma, Gilbert ; Ben-El-Kezadri, Ryad ; Aib, Issam ; Pujolle, Guy

Author_Institution

LIP6 Lab., Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents an autonomic load balancing algorithm (ALBA) which enhances resource allocation in wireless local area networks (WLAN). ALBA offers autonomic management capabilities to access points that ensure the accommodation of more user traffic and an overall network capacity improvement compared to default signal strength based connectivity. Simulations with VoIP traffic over an agglomeration of WLANs show consistent behaviour among neighbouring access points and substantial performance gain in terms of call blocking rate.

Keywords

Internet telephony; channel capacity; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; VoIP traffic; WLAN; autonomic load balancing algorithm; autonomic management; call blocking rate; network capacity; user traffic; wireless local area networks; Computer network management; Degradation; Laboratories; Load management; Resource management; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless LAN; Wireless mesh networks; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2308-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2309-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784696

Filename

4784696