Murat KoyuncuMehmet Kazim GercekTuncay ErcanA OzcanN ChakiD Nagamalai2025-10-062010978-3-642-14170-61865-0929https://gcris.yasar.edu.tr/handle/123456789/7445As the demand for uninterrupted Internet access grows the popularity of wireless communication increases. However wireless communication has some problems compared to conventional wired communication. Especially if widely used Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) applications are taken into consideration it becomes an important issue to balance the load among available access points. It is impossible to balance the load when wireless hosts associate with an access point by using the classical approach of Received Signal Strength Index (RSSI). Some solutions containing a central server requiring a specific brand of access point or protocol revisions have been proposed previously but none of them has been favored as a generally accepted solution. In this study a proposal which is central server free and requires no modifications to the existing infrastructure is presented. The proposed model is based on a dynamic determination of the least loaded access point to associate with in order to balance load and maximize throughput.EnglishWireless Communication, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), IEEE 802.11, load balancing, throughput maximizationWIRELESSConference Object