Analyzing the effect of soft handover on WLAN usage efficiency under load condition
Document Type
Conference Article
Publication Title
Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 14th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, NCA 2015
Abstract
With increasing popularity of wireless local area network (WLAN) and emerging real time applications, seamless mobility has become one of the primary concerns. Hence the choice of a proper handoff algorithm is of utmost importance. Previous work suggests that WLAN usage efficiency can act as a good metric to measure the performance of a handoff algorithm. We argue that in a multiple AP scenario, the load on each of the APs, the requested data rate of the mobile terminal (MT) and the soft handover have a significant impact on the usage efficiency. In this paper we present an analytical framework to measure the usage efficiency under both load condition and soft handover for a specific data rate request. Our approach is based on finding the circular region centered around an AP within which the requested data rate can be satisfied. The usage efficiency is then computed based on finding the union of all such circular regions.
First Page
192
Last Page
199
DOI
10.1109/NCA.2015.47
Publication Date
1-4-2016
Recommended Citation
Panigrahy, Nitish K. and Ghosh, Sasthi C., "Analyzing the effect of soft handover on WLAN usage efficiency under load condition" (2016). Conference Articles. 671.
https://digitalcommons.isical.ac.in/conf-articles/671
