A novel AP placement algorithm based on user distribution for indoor WLAN system

AP deployment is significant for indoor WLAN system to achieve seamless coverage. The available algorithms do not take user distribution into consideration so that poor user coverage and imbalanced network load occur. Therefore, this paper proposed a novel AP placement algorithm to bridge the AP deployment with user distribution. The proposed algorithm employs statistics theory to model the user distribution as its location and probability. Then we obtain the AP location based on the fuzzy C-clustering algorithm. The proposed algorithm is practical for implementation, which means the actual signal transmission isn't required in our proposed method. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm could automatically achieve a good AP deployment with different user distribution, and provide a good performance in the maximum users and AP load balance in WLAN.