Network overload is one of the key challenges in wireless LANs. This goal is typically achieved when the load of access points is balanced. Recent studies on operational WLANs, shown that access point’s load is often uneven distribution i.e. it will be a crucial task to handle the load of overloaded server. To identify such overloaded server many kind of techniques like load balancing have been proposed already. These methods are commonly required proprietary software or hardware at the user side for controlling the user-access point association. In this proposed system we are presenting a new load balancing method by controlling the size of WLAN cells, which is conceptually similar to cell breathing in cellular networks. This method does not require any modification to the users neither the IEEE 802.11 standard. It only requires the ability of dynamically changing the transmission power of the AP beacon messages. We have develop a set of polynomial time algorithms which find the optimal beacon power settings which minimizes the load of the congested access point. We have also considered the problem of network-wide min-max load balancing. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed method is comparable with or superior to the best existing association-based method.

Load balance in wireless LAN, Power reduction, assign access point assign to Wireless LAN

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