Association Scheme with Traffi c Control for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs

In wireless LANs, wireless clients are associated with one of access points (APs) to obtain network connectivity, and the AP performs network traffi c relay between the wired infrastructure and wireless clients. If a client with a low transmission rate is associated with an AP, the throughput performance of all the clients that are associated with the AP is significantly degraded because of the long channel usage time of the low-rate client. Therefore, it is important to select an appropriate AP when a new client joins the wireless LAN to prevent the performance degradation. In this paper, we propose a traffi c control that determines the feasible data traffi c from an AP to the clients on the basis of the trade-off relationship between the equal-throughput and equal-airtime traffi c allocation policies. We then propose a network-wide association algorithm that allows a client to be associated with the AP that can provide the highest throughput improvement. Simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm achieves the better aggregate throughput and throughput fairness performances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.

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