Access point group transmissions
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsAidan Doyle, Gaurav Patwardhan
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Abstract
Example implementations relate to access point group transmissions. For example, an access point can include instructions to determine a first mesh point to be a first hop for a first data packet and determine a second mesh point to be a second hop for a second data packet. In some examples, the access point can include instructions to group the first mesh point and the second mesh point, and utilize the group to simultaneously transmit the first data packet to the first mesh point and the second data packet to the second mesh point.
Claims14
An access point, comprising:
- a processing resource;
- and
- a memory resource storing machine readable instructions to cause the processing resource to:
- determine a first mesh point to be a first hop for a first data packet;
- determine a second mesh point to be a second hop for a second data packet;
- group the first mesh point and the second mesh point;
- and
- utilize the group to simultaneously transmit the first data packet to the first mesh point and the second data packet to the second mesh point, wherein the access point temporarily treats the group as client devices in a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) group.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium having stored thereon machine readable instructions to cause a computer processor of a network device to:
- receive a first data packet and a second data packet that is different than the first data packet;
- identify a first access point to be used as a hop for transmitting the first data packet and a second access point to be used as a hop for transmitting the second data packet respectively;
- generate a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) group including both the first access point and the second access point, wherein the first access point and the second access point are temporarily treated as client devices;
- transmit the first data packet and the second data packet to the MU-MIMO group by treating the first and second access points as client devices, wherein the first and second access points are non-client devices.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a first mesh point;
- a first data packet and a second data packet that is different than the first data packet;
- identifying, at the first mesh point, a second mesh point to be used as a hop for transmitting the first data packet and a third mesh point to be used as a hop for transmitting the second data packet;
- and
- grouping, by the first mesh point, the second mesh point and the third mesh point into a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) group to be temporarily treated as client devices, wherein the second mesh point and the third mesh point are non-client devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.