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To assign the best access point (AP) and provide enough resources for each user, an effective load-balancing (LB) strategy is needed. However, the traditional LB strategies involve sophisticated iterative computing procedures whenever the user distribution changes. Hence, the first contribution of this work is to offer a more adaptable, two-step, conditional, and most-correlated distribution (CMCD) algorithm. Thus, the low-complexity most-correlated distribution (MCD) LB scheme is applied, and the average data rates for all users are then calculated. If the results achieve the predefined performance threshold (PDT), the decisions will be confirmed; otherwise, the proposed scheme automatically switches to the more accurate, but more complex, consecutive assign WiGig first separate optimization algorithms (CAWFS) algorithm. The suggested algorithm provides a clear performance-complexity trade-off, which could be simply controlled by choosing the suitable performance tolerance factor. The second contribution of this paper is the correlation-weighted majority voting (CWMV) method, which attempts to benefit from as many prior decision votes as possible, instead of relying just on one vote. In the CWMV technique, the weight of each vote is calculated based on the correlation between the history distribution vectors and the new user distribution vector. 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