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124 F. Gamba, J.-F. Wagen, and D. Rossiernel between two access po<strong>in</strong>ts which are subject to <strong>in</strong>terfere each with other. Currently,VIL topology is determ<strong>in</strong>ed and configured manually <strong>by</strong> edit<strong>in</strong>g a property filefor each AWM_agent. Automatic VIL discovery mechanism is currently be<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>vestigated.Fig. 4. Test environment architectureThe number appear<strong>in</strong>g on each VIL corresponds to the difference of frequencychannel between APs. For example, AP1 is configured on channel 13 and AP2 is alsoon channel 13, therefore the number 0 (=|freq(AP1)-freq(AP2)|=|13-13|) is circled onthe VIL (AP1, AP2).MIB Parameters have been <strong>in</strong>troduced <strong>in</strong> Section 3.3. In the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g of our experiment,we have configured each access po<strong>in</strong>t on the channel 1. We have then associateda certa<strong>in</strong> number of stations (mobile users) to the access po<strong>in</strong>ts accord<strong>in</strong>g to thefollow<strong>in</strong>g scheme: two stations (users) are associated to AP1, three to AP3, five toAP2 and no station is associated to AP4. The numbers depicted on the figure showsthe f<strong>in</strong>al (and stable) configuration we obta<strong>in</strong> after less than 10 m<strong>in</strong>utes. It is importantto see that the optimization algorithm takes <strong>in</strong>to account the possibility to havetwo access po<strong>in</strong>ts configured with the same channel (AP1 and AP2). As expla<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong>Section 4, hav<strong>in</strong>g two neighbor<strong>in</strong>g access po<strong>in</strong>ts on the same channels may be consideredas a better solution than hav<strong>in</strong>g a small difference of frequency.Figure 6 shows the adaptive process over time and, hence, the evolution of the assignedfrequency channel for each access po<strong>in</strong>t. A different l<strong>in</strong>e profile (size andstyle) is given to each AP.The optimization algorithm must obviously ensure that the process will convergeand avoids cycles. The algorithm we implemented becomes stable after a few m<strong>in</strong>utes.This algorithm is be<strong>in</strong>g patented, thus no more details are provided. Dur<strong>in</strong>g theoptimization process, the APs may change several time their frequency channel. Auser associated with a particular access po<strong>in</strong>t loose a few packets dur<strong>in</strong>g the 1 to 3

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