Optimal base station placement and fixed channel assignment applied to wireless local area network projects

The project of a wireless local area network (WLAN) has two major issues: determining the best placement of the base stations (BS) and assigning the frequency channels for the stations. The correct BS placement minimizes the number of stations necessary to cover the desired attendance area, reducing...

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Published inIEEE International Conference on Networks. ICON '99 Proceedings (Cat. No.PR00243) pp. 186 - 192
Main Authors Rodrigues, R.C., Mateus, G.R., Loureiro, A.A.F.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1999
Subjects
Base stations
Computational modeling
Ethernet networks
Frequency
Hardware
Indoor environments
Paging strategies
Spread spectrum communication
Wireless LAN
Wireless networks
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Summary:The project of a wireless local area network (WLAN) has two major issues: determining the best placement of the base stations (BS) and assigning the frequency channels for the stations. The correct BS placement minimizes the number of stations necessary to cover the desired attendance area, reducing installation costs. The channel assignment determines the frequency band to be used by each BS, minimizing interference signals between them and improving the network throughput. This work relates a real experience where we applied the concepts of two outdoor environment classic problems, the optimal base placement problem for indoor environments and the fixed channel assignment problem, to build a wireless local area network in an indoor environment. We describe the hardware we used, the integer linear programming models developed and the results obtained.
ISBN:9780769502434
0769502431
DOI:10.1109/ICON.1999.796177