Wirekss LANs have been widely deploye4 and multipk access points (APs) will be much more likely to be availabk there forILTAs, which can rom from one AP to another by some ruk. We here focus on an emient and fair way to use the wirekss access resources provided by multiple APs. In p&ulU, our major concern is to develop a decenhrlired way to enabk each of STAs to sekct an appropriate one of available APs independently. A sfraigworward way is to select an AP with strongest signal, which will be, however, shown to needfirrrher i,wprovement. Hence, we propose decenmrlizsd AP sekcrion strategies lo ashieve an emient and fair share of wirekss access resources, and evaluate them by simulations. Tnrough our resuIIs, the proposed sfrategies can w i n an excellent blvoughput performance by use of the number of active STAS sharing each AP even i f STAs employ the strategies only when entering the wireless LAN. In addifion, if STAs roam from one AP to Mother in response to changing siluation, the total throughput and fairness can be further improved very much.
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