Decentralized access point selection architecture for wireless LANs

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E90-B, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2513-2523

  Fukuda, Yutaka ^a   Oie, Yuji ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Access point (AP); AP selection; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

ACCESS POINT SELECTION; ACCESS POINTS; AP SELECTION; DECENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; STATIC CHARACTERISTIC;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 56449090187     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.9.2513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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