With wireless technologies becoming prevalent at the last hop, today's network operators
need to manage WiFi access networks in unison with their wired counterparts. However, the …

In this letter, the development and testing of an open enterprise Wi-Fi solution based on
virtual access points (APs), managed by a central WLAN controller is presented. It allows …

Enterprise IEEE 802.11 networks need to provide high network performance to operate a
large number of diverse clients like laptops, smartphones and tablets as well as capacity …

Within IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), client stations can move freely,
but because of the short range of their Access Points (APs), they usually need to reassociate …

This paper presents a novel software-defined wireless network architecture that integrates
coordination mechanisms to enhance the capabilities of a set of central managed Wi-Fi …

Caching content close to the end users, eg, at cellular base stations (BSs), WiFi access
points (APs), and end user devices is known to improve efficiency and effectiveness of …

ABSTRACT In an infrastructure Basic Service Set (BSS) beacon frames are transmitted
periodically by the Access Point (AP) and announce the presence of a wireless network. It …

With the increasing demand for mobile Internet access, WLAN virtualization is becoming a
promising solution for sharing wireless infrastructure among multiple service providers …

Cognitive Radio (CR) is a promising approach to overcome the spectrum crunch faced by
today's enterprise and residential WiFi (IEEE 802.11) due to rapid growth of wireless devices …

Future digital factories are becoming more and more softwarized. This introduces flexibility,
but the industry also demands robustness and Quality of Service (QoS) support. While 5G …