Air-time capacities
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorDongwoon Hahn
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate, among other things, to a controller communicatively coupled to a plurality of radios, where each radio may be associated with a wireless channel. The controller may obtain, for each radio in the plurality of radios, a set of parameters associated with the radio's communication through the wireless channel associated with the radio, and determine an air-time capacity of the radio based on the set of parameters. The controller may also calculate a combined air-time capacity of the plurality of radios based on the air-time capacity of each of the plurality of radios, and based on the combined air-time capacity, determine whether to assign a different wireless channel to at least one of the plurality of radios.
Claims13
A controller communicatively coupled to a plurality of radios, each radio being associated with a wireless channel and each radio capable of supporting a plurality of bandwidths, wherein the controller is to:
- for each radio in the plurality of radios, obtain a set of parameters associated with the radio's communication through the wireless channel associated with the radio, wherein at least one radio in the plurality of radios supports communications through a set of sub-channels associated with the wireless channel;
- determine an air-time capacity of the radio based on the set of parameters, wherein determining an air-time capacity of the at least one radio based on the set of parameters further comprises:
- quantifying a sub-channel capacity of each of the set of sub-channels based on the set of parameters,
- calculating bandwidth-specific capacities for the at least one radio for each bandwidth in the plurality of bandwidths supported by the at least one radio based on the quantified sub-channel capacities, and
- designating the air-time capacity of the at least one radio in the plurality of radios as a maximum of the bandwidth-specific capacities;
- calculate a combined air-time capacity of the plurality of radios based on the air-time capacity of each of the plurality of radios;
- and
- based on the combined air-time capacity, determine whether to assign a different wireless channel to at least one of the plurality of radios,
- wherein the set of parameters comprises at least one of:
- an amount of transmissions by the radio to devices other than client devices associated with the radio, an amount of in-network co-channel interference received by the radio from devices communicatively coupled to the controller, an amount of out-of-network co-channel interference received by the radio from devices not communicatively coupled to the controller, and an amount of out-of-standard interference.
A method for determining a combined air-time capacity of a network comprising a plurality of radios, each radio being associated with a wireless channel and each radio capable of supporting a plurality of bandwidths, the method comprising:
- obtaining, for each radio in the plurality of radios, a set of parameters associated with the radio's communication through the wireless channel associated with the radio, wherein at least one radio in the plurality of radios supports communications through a set of sub-channels associated with the wireless channel;
- determine an air-time capacity of the radio based on the set of parameters, wherein determining an air-time capacity of the at least one radio based on the set of parameters further comprises:
- quantifying a sub-channel capacity of each of the set of sub-channels based on the set of parameters,
- calculating bandwidth-specific capacities for the at least one radio for each bandwidth in the plurality of bandwidths supported by the at least one radio based on the quantified sub-channel capacities, and
- designating the air-time capacity of the at least one radio in the plurality of radios as a maximum of the bandwidth-specific capacities;
- and
- calculating the combined air-time capacity based on the air-time capacity of each of the plurality of radios,
- wherein the set of parameters comprise at least one of:
- an amount of transmissions by the radio to devices other than client devices associated with the radio, an amount of in-network co-channel interference received by the radio from other devices within the network, an amount of out-of-network co-channel interference received by the radio from devices not within the network, and an amount of out-of-standard interference.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing device to cause the computing device to:
- obtain a set of parameters associated with each radio in the plurality of radios of a wireless network, each radio being associated with a wireless channel and each radio configured to support a plurality of bandwidths, wherein at least one radio in the plurality of radios supports communications through a set of sub-channels associated with the wireless channel;
- determine an air-time capacity of the radio based on the set of parameters, wherein determining an air-time capacity of the at least one radio based on the set of parameters further comprises:
- quantifying a sub-channel capacity of each of the set of sub-channels based on the set of parameters,
- calculating bandwidth-specific capacities for the at least one radio for each bandwidth in the plurality of bandwidths supported by the at least one radio based on the quantified sub-channel capacities, and
- designating the air-time capacity of the at least one radio in the plurality of radios as a maximum of the bandwidth-specific capacities;
- calculate a combined air-time capacity of the plurality of radios based on the air-time capacity of each of the plurality of radios;
- and
- based on the combined air-time capacity, determine whether to assign to at least one of the plurality of radios at least one of:
- a different wireless channel and a different bandwidth,
- wherein the set of parameters comprises at least one of:
- an amount of transmissions by the radio to devices other than client devices associated with the radio, an amount of in-network co-channel interference received by the radio from devices associated with the wireless network, an amount of out-of-network co-channel interference received by the radio from devices not associated with the wireless network, and an amount of out-of-standard interference.
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