Characterizing spontaneous IEEE 802.11 network deployments
Andrés Arcia-Moret, Laudin Molina, German Castignani, Nicolas Montavont · 2012
Nowadays, 802.11 networks have been deployed in a scale similar to that of Ethernet networks in the 90's. Devices willing to connect to a single access point should discover it before attempting a connection. The discovery process has been proved to be highest delay sub-process during the initial discovery or a handover for seamless connectivity. In this article we present a detailed description of the scanning process in a Linux kernel, and analyze metrics of two different scenarios to characterize spontaneous deployments.