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Load Balancing Video Clients in Enterprise Wireless Networks

Suresh, Aswin  
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Mena, Sergio  
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Tomozei, Dan-Cristian  
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2018
2018 Ieee Wireless Communications And Networking Conference (Wcnc)
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)

Given the increasing popularity of real-time video communication over enterprise wireless networks, ensuring good quality of experience is becoming critical. A common problem in such networks is that the clients typically adopt the strategy of associating to the access point with the highest signal strength, which can lead to load imbalance, unfair throughput allocation, and low overall video quality. In this paper, we propose to improve load balancing across video clients by selectively triggering directed roams of chosen clients, while explicitly accounting for the cost of roaming. We formulate the problem of identifying the directed roams to perform as an optimization problem where the objective function reflects both the overall utility of all video clients and the cost due to roaming. We subsequently apply relaxations to the original NP-Hard problem, and propose a three-stage algorithm that efficiently computes an approximate solution. Simulations show that by selectively roaming just 5% of the clients, we increase throughput relative to an initial strongest signal based association by at least 10% for over half of the clients and by at least 20% for over a quarter of the clients. We also increase aggregate throughput, improve fairness and thereby increase the overall video quality.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377323
Author(s)
Suresh, Aswin  
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Mena, Sergio  
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Tomozei, Dan-Cristian  
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Granai, Lorenzo  
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Zhu, Xiaoqing
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Ferrari, S
Date Issued

2018

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2018 Ieee Wireless Communications And Networking Conference (Wcnc)
ISBN of the book

978-1-5386-1734-2

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

Subjects

Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture

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Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Telecommunications

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Engineering

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Editorial or Peer reviewed

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)

Apr 15-18, 2018

Apr 15-18, 2018

Available on Infoscience
November 8, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/150517
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