Characterizing User Behavior and Network Performance in a Public Wireless LAN Export

@inproceedings{balachandran:behavior, abstract = {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 our study are: (1) to extend our understanding of wireless user behavior and wireless network performance; (2) to characterize wireless users in terms of a parameterized model for use with analytic and simulation studies involving wireless LAN traffic; and (3) to apply our 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.}, address = {Marina Del Rey, CA}, author = {Balachandran, Anand and Voelker, Geoffrey M. and Bahl, Paramvir and Rangan, P. Venkat}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference}, citeulike-article-id = {2820636}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/511334.511359}, keywords = {crawdad, measurement, ucsd\_sigcomm2001, wireless}, month = {June}, pages = {195--205}, posted-at = {2008-05-21 17:27:00}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Characterizing User Behavior and Network Performance in a Public Wireless {LAN}}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/511334.511359}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - balachandran:behavior L3 - citeulike-article-id:2820636 N2 - 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 our study are: (1) to extend our understanding of wireless user behavior and wireless network performance; (2) to characterize wireless users in terms of a parameterized model for use with analytic and simulation studies involving wireless LAN traffic; and (3) to apply our 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. AD - Marina Del Rey, CA EP - 205 TI - Characterizing User Behavior and Network Performance in a Public Wireless {LAN} PB - ACM Press T2 - Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference SP - 195 KW - crawdad KW - measurement KW - ucsd_sigcomm2001 KW - wireless AU - Balachandran, Anand AU - Voelker, Geoffrey AU - Bahl, Paramvir AU - Rangan, Venkat PY - 2002/June// UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/511334.511359 ER -