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Characterizing user behavior and network performance in a public wireless LAN

2002; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 30; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/511399.511359

1557-9484

Anand Balachandran, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Paramvir Bahl, P. Venkat Rangan,

Network Traffic and Congestion Control

This paper presents and analyzes user behavior and network performance in a public-area wireless network using a workload captured at a well-attended ACM conference. The goals of our study are: (1) to extend our understanding of wireless user behavior and wireless network performance; (2) to characterize wireless users in terms of a parameterized model for use with analytic and simulation studies involving wireless LAN traffic; and (3) to apply our workload analysis results to issues in wireless network deployment, such as capacity planning, and potential network optimizations, such as algorithms for load balancing across multiple access points (APs) in a wireless network.