Recent rapid development of high-speed wireless access technologies has created mixed WLAN (Wireless LAN) environments where QoS capable APs coexist with legacy APs. To provide QoS guarantee in this mixed WLAN environment, this paper proposes a new AP selection algorithm. The proposed algorithm assigns an STA (Station) to an AP in the overall WLAN service area. Simulation results show improvement in the VoIP performance in terms of an eMOS (estimated Mean Opinion Score) value and the FTP throughput compared to conventional algorithms.

This paper proposes a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) session capacity expansion method that uses periodic packet transmission suppression control for wireless LANs. The proposed method expands the VoIP session capacity of an AP without critically degrading the QoS (Quality of Service) of all stations. Simulation results show the proposed method with 0.5% packet suppression control on each station expands a VoIP session capacity by up to 5% compared to a legacy method while satisfying required QoS for all stations.