ABSTRACT
In recent years, WLANs are widely deployed everywhere due to the low-cost and easy installation. Selecting the
best access point is the major research problem. The stations in the network should get associate with the suitable
access points that results in higher throughput. In IEEE 802.11 wireless networks, the simple association strategy
is to get associate to the AP with the strongest RSSI value, which may cause load imbalance and may eventually
leads to traffic overhead. Access point selection is still a critical problem.So, a new metric or combination of
metrics has to be derived that facilitates the effective selection of an AP to achieve better throughput.
Index Terms – Access Point (AP) Association, Decision Metrics, RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indication),
Wireless Local Area Network(WLAN).