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Characterizing User Behavior and Network Performance in a Public Wireless LAN

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Overview This paper presents and analyzes user behavior and network performance in a public-area wireless network using a workload captured at a well-attended ACM conference. The goals of the study are: to extend the understanding of wireless user behavior and wireless network performance; to characterize wireless users in terms of a parameterized model for use with analytic and simulation studies involving wireless LAN traffic; and to apply the workload analysis results to issues in wireless network deployment, such as capacity planning, and potential network optimizations, such as algorithms for load balancing across multiple Access Points (APs) in a wireless network.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	University of California	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2002
Format	White Papers
Topics	Local Area Networks (LAN), Wireless LAN

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