FairWLAN – IP Level QoS Mechanism for Large Wireless LANs

Without traffic classification, WiFi access points try to distribute instantly available bandwidth equally among the several stations. Stations which perform sporadic use of the network, such as those used for browsing the WWW, will have to share bandwidth when they need it, even though they consume...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Procedia technology 2014, Vol.17, p.705-712
Main Authors: Silva, Simão, Pereira, Ricardo Lopes, Valadas, Rui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
campus WLAN
operator WLAN
QoS
SNMP
WLAN
Citations: Items that this one cites
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Without traffic classification, WiFi access points try to distribute instantly available bandwidth equally among the several stations. Stations which perform sporadic use of the network, such as those used for browsing the WWW, will have to share bandwidth when they need it, even though they consume no resources for most of the time. We believe that a fairer method for resource allocation should take into account the usage history, both recent and historical, of each station. Also, in order to maximise the global capacity of a WiFi network, radio conditions for each station may be taken into account. In this paper, we present FairWLAN, a QoS management system for large Wireless LANs, that retrieves information on each station associated to each access point to drive the configuration of the QoS mechanisms on the upstream router.
ISSN:2212-0173
2212-0173
DOI:10.1016/j.protcy.2014.10.272