Storing a value of a counter for a wireless local area network
AssigneeIntel IP Corporation
InventorJoey Chou
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Abstract
Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between an element manager and a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP). The WLAN AP may be configured with one or more counters. The one or more counters may measure events, such as data transmission and/or reception at the WLAN AP or a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) procedure by the WLAN AP. The element manager may be configured to read one or more of these counters and compute one or more values based on the values read from the one or more counters. The element manager may be configured to communicate the one or more computed values to a network manager. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
Claims13
One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause a device of a cellular network to:
- collect, at an end of a granularity period, first counter values associated with successful media access control protocol data unit (“MPDU”) receptions by each of at least two wireless local area network (WLAN) access points, and second counter values associated with failed MPDU receptions by each of the at least two WLAN access points;
- and
- store the first and second counter values for each of the at least two WLAN access points in storage circuitry of the device, the device provided in the cellular network.
An element manager of a cellular network comprising:
- storage circuitry;
- and
- processing circuitry to implement an integration reference point (“IRP”) agent provided in the cellular network, to:
- collect, at an end of a granularity period, first counter values associated with successful media access control protocol data unit (“MPDU”) receptions by each of at least two wireless local area network (WLAN) access points, and second counter values associated with failed MPDU receptions by each of the at least two WLAN access points;
- and
- store the first and second counter values for each of the WLAN access points in the storage circuitry of the element manager.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.