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Distributed radio resource usage optimization of WLANs based on IEEE 1900.4 architecture

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posted on 2025-05-09, 23:05 authored by Eng Hwee Ong, Jamil Y. Khan
IEEE 1900.4 is the recently approved standard which specify a policy-based radio resource management (RRM) framework where the decision-making process is distributed between the network-terminal entities. By exploiting the cooperative exchange of context information between the network-terminal entities, the standard aims to facilitate the optimization of radio resource usage to improve the overall composite capacity and QoS of wireless networks in a multiple radio access technologies (multi-RAT) landscape. In this paper, we demonstrate how IEEE 1900.4 standard can be employed to legacy radio access network, in particular, a multiple access point (multi-AP) based WLAN to effectuate distributed radio resources usage optimization, corresponding to one of the three use cases defined in the standard through a load adaptation policy (LAP). Through simulations, we show that overall composite capacity and QoS in terms of QoS balance can be improved by 15% and 23% respectively and the total number of handover can be reduced by 72% with IEEE 1900.4 RRM as compared to a network-distributed RRM architecture.

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Source title

Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP Wireless Days (WD) 2009

Name of conference

2nd IFIP Wireless Days (WD) 2009

Location

Paris, France

Start date

2009-12-15

End date

2009-12-17

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Place published

Piscataway, NJ

Language

  • en, English

College/Research Centre

Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

School

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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