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The degradation of end-to-end quality of service (QoS) on mobile users is becoming a common issue for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure-based networks in crowded areas. This research tackles the issue by employing an SDN framework on an integrated wireless/wired environment. Thereby, we present the development and implementation of a system that performs user management by analyzing the network load from the OpenFlow statistics, as well as the wireless information collected from the associated users. In order to analyse the behaviour of the proposed user migration algorithm, we evaluate the system under scenarios with different traffic load and user session duration. From the experiments, we observed that in several cases wireless users get a considerable QoS improvement at the application layer (up to 30% improvement in throughput and up to 20% in delay in our simulations) once the system is activated. Based on the results, we present an analysis on how and when user migration in multi-access point IEEE 802.11 networks can be most effective.

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This research was supported through funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

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    Eduardo Luengo, Shahram Shah Heydari & Khalil El-Khatib

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Luengo, E., Shah Heydari, S. & El-Khatib, K. SDN-based wireless user management system. Telecommun Syst 65, 755–769 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-016-0264-1

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