Experimental Performances Analysis of Load Balancing Algorithms in IEEE 802.11

TL;DR

This paper evaluates load balancing algorithms in IEEE 802.11, highlighting the importance of considering signal quality (SNR) in association decisions to improve QoS metrics like bit rate and delay.

Contribution

It introduces an improved load balancing algorithm that incorporates SNR into the access point selection process.

Findings

APs are balanced but SNR issues can degrade QoS

Incorporating SNR improves load balancing effectiveness

Enhanced algorithm leads to better bit rate and delay performance

Abstract

In IEEE 802.11, load balancing algorithms (LBA) consider only the associated stations to balance the load of the available access points (APs). However, although the APs are balanced, it causes a bad situation if the AP has a lower signal length (SNR) less than the neighbor APs. So, balance the load and associate one mobile station to an access point without care about the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the AP cause possibly an unforeseen QoS, such as the bit rate, the end to end delay, the packet loss. In this way, we study an improvement load balancing algorithm with SNR integration at the selection policy.