Association Control Based Load Balancing for Tactical Information Communication Networks

In this paper, we propose a distributed load balancing using association control, especially for Tactical Information Communication Networks (TICNs). We develop a scheme for effectively balancing the load at the Base Stations (BSs), where a BS´s load represents the amount of resources utilized by a BS, thus minimizing the blocking probability as well as the transmission failure probability. In order to make it more suitable to the military environment, we develop the proposed scheme in a completely distributed manner. Extensive simulations are performed and the proposed scheme is found to outperform the association schemes existing in the literature.