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Abstract
Wi-Fi network enables mobile user to access internet challenges of speed, convenience, connectivity, and
and other communication services within a particular traffic and response time on any given WiFi network.
area. However all mobile users are not satisfied with the Hence the objective of this paper is to provide an
access to the network. The number of users keeps optimized model of the WiFi network.
increasing because of which there arises the problem of
traffic congestion, increase in call drop rate, higher II. RELATED WORK REVIEW
delays, limited access points capability etc. These In literature [1] Linear Programming model is used for
problems makes wifi network inefficient. Hence, to vertical hand over problem to enable mobile user to
make the efficient usage of the wifi network a model is switch to different networks to provide seamless switch
proposed to optimize the resource utilization through over with best Quality of Service support. LP model is
linear programming. In this project, the results of therefore aimed to provide optimized results for VHO
analyze is on 802.11 wireless LAN network traffic is decisions. Their computation complexity for such
presented. Wi-Fi network traffic is analyzed using analysis with parameters like Received Signal Strength,
Linear Programming model in LINDO tool. The process traffic load and delay were seemed to be less. In
involves formulation of various parameters into linear literature [2] scheduling problems based on dynamic
equations, subject to certain constraints and solving them broadcasting were solved using LP model to minimize
using LINDO. Linear Programming is used when the the delivery cost and maximize the spectrum usage
resources are limited. The paper present an efficient efficiency. The author used network connection interface
model designed to optimize the wifi resource utilization to optimize the performance of broadcast spectrum. The
with limited resources constraint. paper revealed that simulating analysis model on
scheduling the spectrum enabled better performance in
Keywords: Wifi Network, modeling, linear the application of television data transmission and
programming, Lindo showed better cost model. In literature[3] author
proposed LP model to analyze the framework for flow
I. INTRODUCTION jamming attack. In wireless communication area such
WiFi (IEEE 802.11) is widely used wireless network in wireless network are vulnerable to Denial of Service
campus environment which operates at 2.4 and 5GHz attack and hence analyzing wide band noise and
frequency channel and provides 11 Mbps data rate to interference waveforms are very much needed in
mobile users. All college and corporate campus are wireless networks.In literature [4]wifi network
employed with WiFi access to give high speed mobile topologies and WLAN network are widely studied for
access to online information to make them more channel assignment and performance analysis. In
productive. Therefore WiFi has become ubiquitous literature [5] traffic analysis were carried to study
across the world. Sometimes the service providers may performance of the network. The model analysis packet
need to support highly dense population in any given size for real data trace. The paper revealed that
location. For instance a lecture hall or an auditorium can downstream packet size is larger than the upstream.
hold populations of 100, 500 or more individuals with However researches were not carried to maximize the
devices that need network connection simultaneously. resource utilization. In literature [6] WLAN network is
But the increase in user population affects the efficient considered for mobile user usage and studied with
usage of the resources and is limited to capability of different classes of traffic and the paper reveals that
legacy Access Points. Also the users expect the network mobile users had different mobility characteristics with
access with higher speed, larger coverage area, wider different devices and tend to associate with AP
range of mobility, less interference, low call drop rate connected. Therefore it is essential to analyze campus
etc. Therefore the users are subjected to face the wifi network to resolve the challenging issues for
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resource management to mobile users. In literature [7] network and by taking into account the number of
LP has been applied to address the problem of wifi users, the data rate, the access point specifications
transmitter interference. In literature [8] LP have been and coverage area, thereby to make wifi facility
widely used in random fuzzy multi objective problem for available to maximum number of users.
developing a decision making model for optimization. In
literature [9] LP has been used for domain fusion
problem. This helped to solve complex problems. Thus
3.1 FORMULATION
study of wifi network analysis is an important issue that We assume campus wifi network with static
has to be handled through research. This motivates the existence of indoor and outdoor access points. We
use of linear programming to solve multi objective select individual access points and analyze their
problem. In literature[10] performance of integrated performance (i.e) bandwidth utilization of the
Wifi and Wimax network are extensively studied for network at various time period.
different codecs. Simulations were carried with OPNET
tool model to study the quality of data. However the In this section, we propose Linear Programming
paper takes the fixed topology and did not consider the model to optimize the bandwidth utilization of a
mobility model into account. Therefore studying particular network. To maximize the resource
wireless network and analyzing the performance is a utilization
challenging problem in recent research.
This paper designs Wifi network into a linear :Max: 𝑛𝑖=1 A𝑖 + B𝑖 1
programming model. The objective is to maximize the ST:
resource allocated to the access point. This enables A+B<=ω
more number of mobile users to get connected to the αA+βB<=θ
access points. This leads to optimizing the performance λmin<= A <= λmax
of network. The model takes bandwidth, data rate and ∆min<= B <= ∆max
signal strength as factor to study the performance
measure of wifi network. TABLE 1: LIST OF SYMBOLS
Symbols Description
A,B No. of indoor and outdoor APs
ω Maximum no. of total AP’s
α, β Bandwidth usage by indoor and
outdoor users
θ Total Bandwidth
I Number of users
N Max. count of users
λmin, Min and Max values A can take
λmax
∆min, Min and Max values B can take
Figure 1 System model for WiFi analysis ∆max
III LINEAR PROGRAMMING WIFI Figure 1 shows the simulation results of the linear
ANALYSIS MODEL programming in Lindo tool. It shows the optimized
Linear Programming is a mathematical tool used to value for the given scenario. The constraints are
find optimal solution to problems subject to a set of satisfied and the optimized value gives us the
constraints. It gives the optimal solution for maximum allowable number of users. It also shows
resource allocation problem. To find the optimized us the allowable increase and decrease in coefficient
results we first identify the decision variables, values. The allowable decrease of current
objective functions, function constraints and the coefficient value of A is infinity. This shows us
variable boundaries. Hence LP is used to create a that this value can be reduced to infinity without
model for the wifi network by predicting the affecting the optimized value. Also the reduced
required amount of resources for a particular cost is given as 0, which implies that the
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optimization is done to its maximum level. The Communications, Networking and Mobile
simulation result shows the allowable amount of Computing,(1- 4) (Sep- 2012).
increase in usage of the bandwidth by users. The [2] Junge Qi, Peter Neumann and Ulrich Reimers,
analysis was made at various access points. The Dynamic Broadcast, in Proceedings of Electronic
graph shows that 12% of increase is possible in Media Technology (CEMT (March 2011).
[3] Patrick Tague, David Slater and Adha
bandwidth usage at AP1, 18% at AP2, 5% at AP3, Poovendran, Linear Programming Models for
10% at AP4 and 6% at AP%. Jamming Attacks on Network Traffic Flows,
in Modeling and Optimization" Mobile, Ad Hoc
and Wireless Networks and Workshops,(207-216)
80
(2008).
70
% of Bandwidth Utilization
REFERENCES:
[1] OlarnWongwirat, WittayaPanjanda, “An
Application of Linear Programming for Vertical
Handover Decision Making”, Proceedings of
the 8th International Conference on Wireless
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