Universal repeater, a method of operating a universal repeater and a network
AssigneeAirties Kablosuz Iletisim San. Ve Dis Tic. A.S.
InventorsFirat Birlik, Can Ihan, Mehmet Karaca
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Abstract
A Universal Repeater (UR) configured to pair with an uplink in a network. The UR may include an interface configured to interface wirelessly with a uplink along a selected route between the UR and an access point (AP) in a network; and a memory having machine executable code therein that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to determine the uplink based on data received from a plurality of candidate uplinks, and instruct the interface to pair with the uplink.
Claims13
A method of determining a selected uplink for a universal repeater (UR) with an access point (AP) in a network, the method comprising:
- listening for a set time for the broadcast packets using a same Service Set Identifier (SSID) from a plurality of devices providing candidate uplinks operating in the network, the plurality of devices including the access point and one or more further universal repeater;
- determining Basic Service Set Identifiers (BSSIDs) of the plurality of devices using the same SSID;
- determining an end-to-end throughput based on data in the broadcast packets for each of the plurality of candidate uplinks provided by the plurality of devices with the determined BSSIDs using the same SSID;
- determining a sorted list of end-to-end throughput for each of the plurality of candidate uplinks provided by the plurality of devices with the determined BSSIDs using the same SSID;
- determining, at the universal repeater, the selected uplink based on data in the broadcast packets indicative of a highest one of an end-to-end throughput from the universal repeater to the access point via each of the plurality of candidate uplinks provided by the plurality of devices with the determined BSSIDs;
- instructing the universal repeater to pair, in a station mode, with the device of the plurality of devices with the BSSID providing the selected uplink;
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- operating the universal repeater in an access point mode.
A universal repeater comprising:
- an interface configured to interface with a selected uplink along a route between the universal repeater and an access point in a network having a plurality of candidate links;
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- a memory having machine executable code therein that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to,
- listen for a set time for broadcast packets using a same Service Set Identifier (SSID) from a plurality of devices providing a plurality of candidate uplinks operating in the network, the plurality of devices including the access point and one or more further universal repeaters,
- determine Basic Service Set Identifiers (BSSIDs) of the plurality of devices using the same SSID,
- determine an end-to-end throughput based on data in the broadcast packets for each of the plurality of candidate uplinks provided by the plurality of devices with the determined BSSIDs using the same SSID,
- determine a sorted list of end-to-end throughput for each of the plurality of candidate uplinks provided by the plurality of devices with the determined BSSIDs using the same SSID,
- determine the selected uplink based on data in the broadcast packets indicative of a highest one of an end-to-end throughput from the universal repeater to the access point via each of the plurality of candidate uplinks provided by the plurality of devices with the determined BSSIDs,
- instruct the universal repeater to pair, in station mode, with the device of the plurality of devices with the BSSID providing the selected uplink, and
- operate the universal repeater in an access point mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.