Supporting 'One Big AP' illusion in enterprise WLAN: An SDN-based solution

2014 6th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, WCSP 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhao, Dong ^a   Zhu, Ming ^a   Xu, Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

AP handoff; enterprise WLAN; SDN

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

AP HANDOFF; HANDOFF INITIATIONS; HANDOFF PROCEDURES; IEEE 802.11 STANDARDS; NETWORK OPERATOR; NETWORK-CONTROLLED; OPTIMAL RESULTS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN);

IEEE STANDARDS;

EID: 84921632728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCSP.2014.6992121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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