A Novel Approach to Detect the Level of Congestion in a Wireless Network

摘要

Congestion in a network is due to the lower bandwidth in the wireless part as compared to the wired one. Extensive planning has to be made on the wireless network side as it is challenging to predict the number of nodes active which are connected to the network over a period of time. In this paper we study the link between the RE-Transmission Timer with respect to network congestion. We are proposing a cluster based methodology to determine the status of the of access point with respect to the channel which will help us to plan better network. We use the traces collected from wireless monitoring at the 62nd Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting held in Minneapolis, MN, March, 2005.