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Intermittent WLAN and interactions across heterogeneous wireless networks

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It is envisioned that multiple radios may be integrated into a single portable device in the near future. Such multi-radio devices may participate in multiple networks at the same time. In this paper, we consider a 802.11 WLAN network that shares a common set of multi-radio devices with another network, say CO-NETWORK, and we discuss WiMAX as one example of CO-NETWORK. One multi-radio device may not actively operate in WLAN when the same device is transmitting or receiving in the CO-NETWORK. As such, two networks interact with each other via shared multi-radio devices; and scheduling in CO-NETWORK may affect the performance of WLAN. In this paper, we study how the fairness/throughput of a WLAN network may be affected by the scheduling of CO-NETWORK. We further propose some scheduling optimization criteria for CO-NETWORK to minimize such impact. Simulation and analytical results are provided to demonstrate benefits.

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    Xue Yang, Jing Zhu, Xingang Guo & Tianlin Wang

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Yang, X., Zhu, J., Guo, X. et al. Intermittent WLAN and interactions across heterogeneous wireless networks. Telecommun Syst 43, 13 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-009-9189-2

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