公开(公告)号：WO2018194930A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-25

申请号：PCT/US2018/027582

申请日：2018-04-13

Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED

Inventor： HUANG, Xiaolong ,  KATAR, Srinivas ,  HO, Sai Yiu Duncan ,  RAISSINIA, Alireza ,  BUESKER, Brian Michael ,  CHERIAN, George ,  PATHAK, Ajay Kumar ,  ZHU, Hao

IPC: H04W40/12 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04L12/729 ,  H04L12/727 ,  H04L12/733 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/707 ,  H04L12/725 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W36/00

CPC classification number: H04W36/08 ,  H04L45/121 ,  H04L45/122 ,  H04L45/124 ,  H04L45/125 ,  H04L45/22 ,  H04L45/302 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W36/0044 ,  H04W36/00835 ,  H04W36/0088 ,  H04W36/26 ,  H04W36/30 ,  H04W40/12 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for serving AP selection in a network having multiple access points (APs). In one aspect, a serving AP selection unit can steer a device (such as a client station, STA, or a child AP) based on a quality of service profile (such as a capacity requirement or a delay requirement) of the device. The device may be initially associated with a first AP (as the current serving AP) in the network. The serving AP selection unit may select a second AP as a new serving AP for the device, and cause the device to associate with the second AP rather than the first AP. The selection of a serving AP may take into account delay or hop count in addition to path capacities for various paths in the network.