Balancing load across radio frequency channels

    公开(公告)号:US10524160B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-31

    申请号:US15974733

    申请日:2018-05-09

    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a network device and method for advertising channel load. The disclosed network device aggregates a number of clients that are associated with the network device on a specific wireless communication channel, and advertises the aggregated number to a client on the specific wireless communication channel. Further, the network device can receive aggregated load information on the specific wireless communication channel from another management network device, and further aggregates the load information across multiple wireless networks operating on the same wireless communication channel and coupled to different management network devices.

    CHANGING STEERING MATRIX CORRESPONDING TO MU-MIMO GROUP TO ALLOW ACCESS POINTS TRANSMIT ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNEL SIMULTANEOUSLY

    公开(公告)号:US20190363764A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-28

    申请号:US16451218

    申请日:2019-06-25

    Abstract: Example method includes: receiving, by a first access point, a plurality of beamforming feedback frames from a plurality of client devices in a WLAN; overhearing, by the first access point, a first beamforming feedback frame from a second access point; calculating, by the first access point, a second beamforming feedback frame in response to receiving a sounding frame transmitted from the second access point in the WLAN; selecting, by the first access point, a first subset of the plurality of client devices and the second access point as members of a MU-MIMO group; changing, by the first access point, a steering matrix corresponding to the MU-MIMO group based on both the received plurality of beamforming feedback frames and the calculated beamforming feedback frame to allow the first access point and the second access point transmit on a particular wireless communication channel simultaneously without interfering each other.

    SPLITTING COMMUNICATION CHANNELS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190239225A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-01

    申请号:US15885561

    申请日:2018-01-31

    Abstract: In some examples, a non-transitory machine-readable medium can include instructions executable by a processing resource of a network device to: receive a first message on a communication band from a first wireless client device; determine a capability complying with a particular wireless specification of the first wireless client device based on information in the first message; split communication channels on the communication band into a first communication channel group and a second communication channel group; and operate the first communication channel group in accordance with the particular wireless specification and the second communication channel group in accordance with other wireless specifications.

    Assign band modes and channels to wireless nodes

    公开(公告)号:US10349411B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-09

    申请号:US15817867

    申请日:2017-11-20

    Abstract: An example method comprising: assigning at least one band mode specified in the band mode list to a radio of the identified node, assigning a dual band mode to a set of wireless nodes of the plurality of wireless nodes that each satisfy a baseline coverage when operating on a low frequency band of the wireless band mode, assigning a high frequency band mode to a set of wireless nodes of the plurality of nodes based on band capacity, assigning a channel to the radio of the node on the high frequency band based on a band capacity; and responsive to assigning the channel to the radio on the high frequency band, assigning a channel to each radio of the set of nodes on the low frequency band.

    Selective caching of pairwise master keys in streamlined roaming

    公开(公告)号:US12133073B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US18345765

    申请日:2023-06-30

    CPC classification number: H04W12/06

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for seamless roaming in a network. First, a client device is authenticated at a first access point of the network. Next, a processor selectively determines, among remaining access points in the network, second access points at which respective precursor keys, such as Pairwise Master Keys R1 (PMK-R1s) are to be computed. The second access points are determined based on any of respective path losses from the first access point to the second access points and respective historical frequencies at which the client device associates at the respective remaining access points. For the second access points, the respective PMK-R1s are computed and transmitted to the second access points to be cached. Next, following a request from the client device to reassociate to a second access point of the second access points, the client device is authenticated at the second access point based on a corresponding PMK-R1.

    Selective caching of pairwise master keys in streamlined roaming

    公开(公告)号:US11737002B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-22

    申请号:US17387355

    申请日:2021-07-28

    CPC classification number: H04W36/08 H04W12/06 H04W36/30

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for seamless roaming in a network. First, a client device is authenticated at a first access point of the network. Next, a processor selectively determines, among remaining access points in the network, second access points at which respective precursor keys, such as Pairwise Master Keys R1 (PMK-R1s) are to be computed. The second access points are determined based on any of respective path losses from the first access point to the second access points and respective historical frequencies at which the client device associates at the respective remaining access points. For the second access points, the respective PMK-R1s are computed and transmitted to the second access points to be cached. Next, following a request from the client device to reassociate to a second access point of the second access points, the client device is authenticated at the second access point based on a corresponding PMK-R1.

    COORDINATED RANGING BETWEEN ACCESS POINTS IN A NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20230179950A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-08

    申请号:US17541909

    申请日:2021-12-03

    CPC classification number: H04W4/023 H04W64/003 H04W8/005 H04B17/309

    Abstract: Examples described herein provide coordinated ranging between APs in a network. Examples described herein may receive, by a computing device, neighbor adjacency information for a plurality of access points (APs) in a network, and based on the neighbor adjacency information, assign, by the computing device, subsets of the plurality of APs to non-overlapping zones. Examples described herein may initiate, by the computing device for each of the non-overlapping zones, ranging measurements between the subset of APs in the zone to generate a ranging result, wherein the ranging measurements between the subsets of APs in the non-overlapping zones are performed in parallel. Examples described herein may, based on the ranging results, resolve, by the computing device, locations of the plurality of APs.

    Managing power consumption of a network

    公开(公告)号:US11546856B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US17071585

    申请日:2020-10-15

    Abstract: Examples provided herein describe a method for managing power consumption of a network. For example, a network device may monitor a set of network area zones of a network coverage area, where each network area zone is associated with a set of edge devices. A first occupancy state may be determined for a first network area zone of the set of network area zones based on usage of a first set of edge devices of the first network area zone. Based on the determined first occupancy state, a first power consumption policy for the first network area zone may be determined. Responsive to determining the first power consumption policy, the determined first power consumption policy may be applied to the first set of edge devices in the first network area zone at least edge changing a power consumption mode of a first edge device in the first set of edge devices.

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