ABSTRACT

With the rapid growth of wireless networks, the wireless portion of the network becomes the bottle neck and a major source of congestion. Planning in the area of wireless network becomes crucial for a sturdy network providing expected quality of service. This paper studies the correlation of the tcp ack flag with respect to network congestion. We describe a clustering approaches to determine the status of access point for a given channel. This will help to determine and plan for additional channel allotment during peak loads. We have used the traces collected by wireless monitoring at the 62nd Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting held in Minneapolis, MN, March, 2005.