Channel assignment strategies of IEEE 802.11 WLAN in a shared public hotspot environment

Author

Srilasak, Songrit ; Wongthavarawat, Kitti ; Limmongkol, Kitiwat ; Siwamogsatham, Siwaruk

Author_Institution

Wireless Innovation & Security Lab., Nat. Electron. & Comput. Technol. Center, Pathumthani, Thailand

fYear

2009

fDate

13-15 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The demand of wireless access in anywhere and anytime drives the deployment of Wi-Fi hotspot. Multiple service providers may deploy the Wi-Fi hotspot in the same area to response to the users´ needs. Channel assignment for the access point becomes the challenging problem, especially in the situation that other service providers do not provide full cooperation. Channel assignment of APs need to be carefully determined to obtain the optimal performance. This paper proposes the channel assignment strategies of IEEE 802.11 WLAN to provide the optimum service performance among shared service providers. The series of experiment presented in this paper provides the basis of the proposed the channel assignment strategies.

Keywords

channel allocation; wireless LAN; WLAN; Wi-Fi hotspot; access point; challenging problem; channel assignment strategies; optimal performance; shared public hotspot environment; wireless access; Airports; Communication system security; Computer security; Interference; National security; OFDM; Personal digital assistants; Physical layer; Technological innovation; Wireless LAN; Channel Assignment; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; Wi-Fi;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications & Signal Processing, 2009. WCSP 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4856-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5668-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCSP.2009.5371621

Filename

5371621