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Presentation 2010-06-17 10:45
Exploiting Potential Throughput Metric for Access Point Selection in Wireless LANs
Suhua Tang, Oyunchimeg Shagdar, Noriyuki Taniguchi, Morihiko Tamai, Hiroyuki Yomo, Akio Hasegawa, Tetsuro Ueda, Ryu Miura, Sadao Obana (ATR) RCS2010-21
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) With the increasing popularity of wireless LANs, more and more access points (AP) are being deployed to enable seamless coverage and ubiquitous access to the Internet. Accordingly, a mobile node often finds multiple APs nearby running on different channels. These channels have different congestion degrees. The quality of the links between the node and the APs also differs. Conventionally, RSSI is used as the metric for AP selection. This metric, despite its simplicity, may cause congestion when node distribution is biased. In this paper, we jointly consider the two key factors, channel congestion degree and link quality, and refine the potential throughput (PT) metric for AP selection. The PT is defined as the max throughput that can be achieved by a node if it exclusively occupies the remaining idle channel. In this way, a node can achieve higher throughput by associating with a farther but less used AP and the congestion of the network can be alleviated. The initial testbed experiments confirm the feasibility and the accuracy of measuring channel congestion degree via the off-the-shelf WLAN cards. The simulation results show that the PT metric can greatly improve the per-node throughput and the total throughput when nodes are unevenly distributed around APs.
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(in English) AP selection / air-time ratio / potential throughput / load balancing / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 110, no. 77, RCS2010-21, pp. 19-24, June 2010.
Paper # RCS2010-21 
Date of Issue 2010-06-10 (RCS) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee RCS  
Conference Date 2010-06-17 - 2010-06-18 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Kyoto Univ. 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) First Presentation in IEICE Technical Committee, Railroad Communications, Inter-Vehicle Communications, Road to Vehicle Communications, Resource Control, Scheduling, Wireless Communication Systems, etc. 
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Registration To RCS 
Conference Code 2010-06-RCS 
Language English 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) Exploiting Potential Throughput Metric for Access Point Selection in Wireless LANs 
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Keyword(1) AP selection  
Keyword(2) air-time ratio  
Keyword(3) potential throughput  
Keyword(4) load balancing  
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1st Author's Name Suhua Tang  
1st Author's Affiliation ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories (ATR)
2nd Author's Name Oyunchimeg Shagdar  
2nd Author's Affiliation ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories (ATR)
3rd Author's Name Noriyuki Taniguchi  
3rd Author's Affiliation ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories (ATR)
4th Author's Name Morihiko Tamai  
4th Author's Affiliation ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories (ATR)
5th Author's Name Hiroyuki Yomo  
5th Author's Affiliation ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories (ATR)
6th Author's Name Akio Hasegawa  
6th Author's Affiliation ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories (ATR)
7th Author's Name Tetsuro Ueda  
7th Author's Affiliation ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories (ATR)
8th Author's Name Ryu Miura  
8th Author's Affiliation ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories (ATR)
9th Author's Name Sadao Obana  
9th Author's Affiliation ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories (ATR)
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Date Time 2010-06-17 10:45:00 
Presentation Time 20 minutes 
Registration for RCS 
Paper # RCS2010-21 
Volume (vol) vol.110 
Number (no) no.77 
Page pp.19-24 
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Date of Issue 2010-06-10 (RCS) 


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