Client steering
AssigneeAirTies Kablosuz Iletism Sanayi Ve Disticaret AS
InventorsSarper M. Gokturk, Alper Akcan, Metin Ismail Taskin
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Abstract
A wireless network device, for use within a wireless network, comprising: a processor; a memory; and an interface for receiving and transmitting data; wherein the wireless network device is adapted to: determine a first cost associated with communication between the wireless network device and a client device to which the wireless network device is connectable; determine a second cost associated with communication between the client device and a further wireless network device to which the client device is connectable; determine whether the first cost or the second cost is the lower cost; and if the second cost is the lower cost, the wireless network device is adapted to guide the client device to communicate with the further network device.
Claims20
A wireless network device, for use within a wireless network, comprising:
- at least one interface for receiving and transmitting data;
- a memory;
- and
- a processor configured to,
- associate first data with communication between the wireless network device and a client device to which the wireless network device is connectable,
- associate second data with communication between the client device and a further network device to which the client device is connectable, wherein the first data is measured data and the second data is inferred data, the measured data being a measured signal strength for a first band and the inferred data being an inferred signal strength for a second band, the inferred signal strength being determined by subtracting a configurable value generated based on historical information from the measured signal strength for the first band in response to an absence of measurements for the second band;
- and
- guide the client device for communication between the client device and the further network device based at least in part on the first data and the second data.
A method of operating a wireless network device in a wireless network, the method comprising:
- associating first data with communication between the wireless network device and a client device to which the wireless network device is connectable;
- associating second data with communication between the client device and a further network device to which the client device is connectable, wherein the first data is measured data and the second data is inferred data, the measured data being a measured signal strength for a first band and the inferred data being an inferred signal strength for a second band, the inferred signal strength being determined by subtracting a configurable value generated based on historical information from the measured signal strength for the first band in response to an absence of measurements for the second band;
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- guiding the client device for communication between the client device and the further network device based at least in part on the first data and the second data.
A wireless network comprising:
- a plurality of wireless network devices each including:
- at least one interface for receiving and transmitting data,
- a memory;
- and
- a processor configured to,
- associate first data with communication between a respective wireless network device of the plurality of wireless network devices and a client device to which the respective wireless network device is connectable;
- associate second data with communication between the client device and a further network device to which the client device is connectable, wherein the first data is measured data and the second data is inferred data, the measured data being a measured signal strength for a first band and the inferred data being an inferred signal strength for a second band, the inferred signal strength being determined by subtracting a configurable value generated based on historical information from the measured signal strength for the first band in response to an absence of measurements for the second band;
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- guide the client device for communication between the client device and the further network device based at least in part on the first data and the second data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.