A Low-Overhead Handling Scheme of STA Association Information for IEEE 802.11s

Author

Okada, Hiraku ; Mase, Kenichi ; Nozaki, Masanori ; Zhang, Bing

Author_Institution

Niigata Univ., Niigata

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A wireless mesh network has much attention for various applications such as home networks or hot spot services, and its standardization is now progressing at the IEEE 802.11s task group. One of the most important issues of the wireless mesh network is how to handle the association information of huge number of legacy user stations (STAs). In this paper, we propose a low-overhead handling scheme of the STA association information in order to solve this issue. In the proposed scheme, we introduce an on-demand approach to handle the STA association information. We also evaluate the overhead of the proposed scheme, and clarify its superiority.

Keywords

telecommunication network topology; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11s; STA association information; low-overhead handling scheme; wireless mesh network; Communication industry; Communications technology; Home automation; Land mobile radio; Mesh networks; Mobile communication; Routing protocols; Standardization; Wireless application protocol; Wireless mesh networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394242

Filename

4394242