Analytical Model of Connection Establishment Duration Calculation in Wireless Networks

It is important to provide possibility of so called “handover" for the mobile subscriber from GSM network to Wi-Fi network and back. To solve specified problem it is necessary to estimate connection time between base station and wireless access point. Difficulty to estimate this parameter is that it doesn-t described in specifications of the standard and, hence, no recommended value is given. In this paper, the analytical model is presented that allows the estimating connection time between base station and IEEE 802.11 access point.

Authors:

• Y. Chaiko

Keywords:

• Access point
• connection procedure
• Wi-Fi network.

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