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SmartAssoc: Decentralized Access Point Selection Algorithm to Improve Throughput

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Fengyuan Xu *
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Xiaojun Zhu
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Chiu C. Tan
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Qun Li
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Guanhua Yan
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Xiangyu Wu
DOI:10.1109/TPDS.2013.10delete
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As the first step of the communication procedure in 802.11, an unwise selection of the access point (AP) hurts one client's throughput. This performance downgrade is usually hard to be offset by other methods, such as efficient rate adaptations. In this paper, we study this AP selection problem in a decentralized manner, with the objective of maximizing the minimum throughput among all clients. We reveal through theoretical analysis that the selfish strategy, which commonly applies in decentralized systems, cannot effectively achieve this objective. Accordingly, we propose an online AP association strategy that not only achieves a minimum throughput (among all clients) that is provably close to the optimum, but also works effectively in practice with reasonable computation and transmission overhead. The association protocol applying this strategy is implemented on the commercial hardware and compatible with legacy APs without any modification. We demonstrate its feasibility and performance through real experiments and intensive simulations.
Keywords:
AP association
wireless LAN
online algorithms
competitive ratio
minimum throughput maximization
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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems cover
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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