TY - GEN
T1 - Cooperation among access points for enhanced quality of service in dense wireless environments
AU - Antoniou, Josephina
AU - Papadopoulou-Lesta, Vicky
AU - Libman, Lavy
AU - Pitsillides, Andreas
AU - Dehkordi, Hooman Reisi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/10/8
Y1 - 2014/10/8
N2 - The high popularity of Wi-Fi technology for wireless access has led to a common problem of densely deployed access points (APs) in residential or commercial buildings, competing to use the same or overlapping frequency channels and causing a degradation to the user experience due to excessive interference. This degradation is partly caused by the restriction where each client device is allowed to be served only by one of a very limited set of APs (e.g. belonging to the same residential unit), even if it is within range of (or even has a better signal quality to) many other APs. In this paper, we propose a cooperative strategy to mitigate the interference and enhance the quality of service in dense wireless deployments, by having neighboring APs agree to take turns (e.g. in round-robin fashion) to serve each other's clients. We present and analyze a cooperative game-theoretic model of the incentives involved in such cooperation and identify the conditions under which cooperation would be beneficial for the participating APs.
AB - The high popularity of Wi-Fi technology for wireless access has led to a common problem of densely deployed access points (APs) in residential or commercial buildings, competing to use the same or overlapping frequency channels and causing a degradation to the user experience due to excessive interference. This degradation is partly caused by the restriction where each client device is allowed to be served only by one of a very limited set of APs (e.g. belonging to the same residential unit), even if it is within range of (or even has a better signal quality to) many other APs. In this paper, we propose a cooperative strategy to mitigate the interference and enhance the quality of service in dense wireless deployments, by having neighboring APs agree to take turns (e.g. in round-robin fashion) to serve each other's clients. We present and analyze a cooperative game-theoretic model of the incentives involved in such cooperation and identify the conditions under which cooperation would be beneficial for the participating APs.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84908891680&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WoWMoM.2014.6918953
DO - 10.1109/WoWMoM.2014.6918953
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908891680
T3 - Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, WoWMoM 2014
BT - Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2014, WoWMoM 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 15th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2014
Y2 - 19 June 2014
ER -