User-centric management of wireless LANs

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 165-175

  Zhu, Yanfeng ^a   Ma, Qian ^a   Bisdikian, Chatschik ^b   Ying, Chun ^a  

^a IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11; access points; network management; performance modeling; Wireless LANs

Indexed keywords

802.11; ACCESS POINTS; CHANNEL SELECTION; COMMUNICATION RESOURCES; EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HIGH-DENSITY; INFORMATION PIPELINE; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS; NETWORK CONDITION; OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE MODELING; USER-CENTRIC; WIRELESS LAN; WIRELESS LANS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80052600391     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2011.072611.100031     Document Type: Article

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