Clustered beacon signal cell breathing for load balancing in mobile and wireless networks

Abstract

Cell breathing is a method to reduce number of connected clients to a base station or an access point within mobile or wireless network. However, this cell breathing may disconnect progressing communication. Other work improved it by disconnecting the beacon signal only, so that current connection is not lost. However, this method does not avoid a mobile node or more, disconnected from any station. By proposing clustered beacon signal cell breathing, signal reduction is applied only to the cluster area where other base station or access point signal is detected. So that the disconnected mobile node will still be able to reconnect to other base station or access point. Simulation shows the method is able to reduce lost connection about 27.66%.