Assisted network discovery for next generation wireless networks
Résumé
IEEE 802.11 networks are the most popular option to have wireless access to the Internet. The popularity of these networks have raised a costly topology discovery and connection process, in which any device has to pass through an expensive scanning process of available Access Points. In order to improve the connection process, we propose a novel architecture for asynchronous assistance for topology discovery. We discuss the role of a Topology Manager that uses computational intelligence for generating optimal scanning sequences. Preliminary results show that this approach results in 30% to 70% improvements on AP discovery rate in chaotic deployments.