Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Mark Anthony Shawn Smith

Yigal Bejerano

Seung-Jae Han

S Jamaloddin Golestani

Joseph Naor

Nicole S Immorlica

Unique identifiers are assigned to sets of adjacent access points in a wireless, local area network (WLAN). Thereafter, a unique identifier may be forwarded to a mobile device which uses the identifier to associate itself with one of the adjacent access points. Associating a mobile device with an adjacent access point using unique identifiers allows a WLAN to meet its load balancing objectives.

Methods and devices for associating a mobile device to access points within a WLAN

The adjacency of access points in a wireless, local area network is used to determine the existence of common overlapping access point coverage areas and to determine maximum distances between access points.

Methods and devices for determining the adjacency of access points in a wireless network

Rounded solutions of a linear program are used to partition or group cells, such as cells in a wireless network, in order to provide efficient approximations of network updating and paging costs.

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Mark Anthony Shawn Smith