Evaluation on enterprise WLAN techniques

Author

Jaegook Lee ; Young-Joo Suh ; Chansu Yu

Author_Institution

POSTECH WCU Div., ITCE, Pohang, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

802.11 WLANs are getting more and more popular. Even though an independent WLAN works in an optimal manner, many problems occur when they are deployed densely particularly with the advancement of new standards and new devices supporting dual- or non-standard features. Research community has been exploring an integrated system to monitor or control the APs and clients so that the network performance can be maximized. Enterprise WLAN (EWLAN) uses a central controller to address problems arising from a collection of APs and their associated clients due to their behavior with the lack of knowledge of other APs and clients in the proximity. This article presents EWLAN´s architecture and characteristics. Then it presents a survey on several solutions in terms of interference mitigation, traffic balance, and mobility support.

Keywords

mobility management (mobile radio); telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; 802.11 WLAN; AP; EWLAN architecture; EWLAN characteristics; central controller; enterprise WLAN technique evaluation; interference mitigation; mobility support; traffic balance; Computer architecture; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Interference; Monitoring; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network of the Future (NOF), 2013 Fourth International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Pohang

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOF.2013.6724525

Filename

6724525