State of the art and recent research advances in software defined networking

T Bakhshi - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging network services and subsequent growth in the networking infrastructure have
gained tremendous momentum in recent years. Application performance requiring rapid real …

A review of software-defined WLANs: Architectures and central control mechanisms

B Dezfouli, V Esmaeelzadeh, J Sheth… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The significant growth in the number of WiFi-enabled devices as well as the increase in the
traffic conveyed through wireless local area networks (WLANs) necessitate the adoption of …

Real-time channel management in WLANs: Deep reinforcement learning versus heuristics

O Iacoboaiea, J Krolikowski, ZB Houidi… - 2021 IFIP Networking …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today's WLANs rely on a centralized Access Controller (AC) entity for managing distributed
wireless Access Points (APs) to which user devices connect. The availability of real-time …

Quality of service oriented access point selection framework for large Wi-Fi networks

A Raschella, F Bouhafs… - … on Network and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of access point (AP) selection in large Wi-Fi networks.
Unlike current solutions that rely on received signal strength to determine the best AP that …

Decentralized channel management in WLANs with graph neural networks

Z Gao, Y Shao, D Gündüz… - ICC 2023-IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless local area networks (WLANs) manage multiple access points (APs) and assign
scarce radio frequency resources to APs for satisfying traffic demands of associated user …

Joint radio resource management of channel-assignment and user-association for load balancing in dense WLAN environment

HS Oh, DG Jeong, WS Jeon - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area network (WLAN) is currently the most popular
communication system and a lot of access points (APs) have been densely deployed over …

A Coral Reefs Optimization algorithm with substrate layer for robust Wi-Fi channel assignment

C Camacho-Gómez, I Marsa-Maestre… - Soft Computing, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we tackle a problem of frequency assignment in Wi-Fi networks with a novel
evolutionary-type algorithm. In this version of the problem, we consider the interferences …

Concurrent decentralized channel allocation and access point selection using multi-armed bandits in multi BSS WLANs

Á López-Raventós, B Bellalta - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Enterprise Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) consist of multiple Access Points
(APs) covering a given area. In these networks, interference is mitigated by allocating …

Channel selection in uncoordinated ieee 802.11 networks using graph coloring

JM Gimenez-Guzman, I Marsa-Maestre, E de la Hoz… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
One of the big challenges in decentralized Wi-Fi networks is how to select channels for the
different access points (APs) and their associated stations (STAs) in order to minimize …

QoS aware radio access technology selection framework in heterogeneous networks using SDN

A Raschella, F Bouhafs, GC Deepak… - Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of radio access technology (RAT) selection in
heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Current approaches rely on signal related metrics such …