An efficient hybrid algorithm for balancing the load of wireless local area network

作者：Hu, Kai Cheng; Wang, Shih Wei; Chiang, Ming Chao^*; Tsai, Chun Wei

来源：Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2016, 56: 243-261.

DOI：10.1016/j.compeleceng.2016.09.036

• Wireless local area network
• Genetic algorithm
• Load balance
• Metaheuristic
• Multi-start

Although the IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) provides users of mobile device a convenient method to connect to the Internet, the load of access points (APs) may have a strong impact on the performance of a WLAN, such as the congestion problem. To avoid this issue and to maximize the performance and scalability of a WLAN, an effective method for balancing the load of APs, called a modified multiple-search multi-start framework based micro-genetic algorithm, is presented in this paper. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm gives a much better solution than the original genetic algorithm does in terms of both the quality and the computation time.

• 出版日期2016-11
• 单位中山大学