Wireless local area network (WLAN) traffic load measurement provisioning to wireless cellular networks
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorJoey Chou
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Abstract
Generally, this disclosure provides devices, systems and methods for provisioning of wireless local area network (WLAN) traffic load measurements to third generation partnership project 3GPP wireless cellular networks. A WLAN element manager (EM) may include a polling module to poll a WLAN access point (AP), the polling to request traffic load data from the WLAN AP; a timer module to trigger the polling module to poll at periodic intervals; a logging module to receive and log the requested traffic load data; and an integration reference point (IRP) agent including a reporting module to generate a traffic load report for transmission to a network manager (NM), the traffic load report based on the logged traffic load data.
Claims15
A wireless local area network (WLAN) element manager (EM) for managing a WLAN domain comprising a group of WLAN access points (APs), comprising one or more processors configured to:
- poll a WLAN AP, the polling to request traffic load data from the WLAN AP;
- trigger the polling of the WLAN AP at a periodic interval for polling;
- receive the traffic load data through a type 1 interface and log the requested traffic load data;
- map the logged traffic load data from a WLAN standard interface format to a third generation partnership project (3GPP) standard interface format to generate 3GPP format traffic load data;
- and
- generate a traffic load report based on the 3GPP format traffic load data and transmit the traffic load report using a type 2 interface to a network manager (NM).
A method for traffic load measurement, comprising:
- polling, through a type 1 interface, a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) in a WLAN domain to request traffic load data from the WLAN AP, the polling triggered at a periodic interval for polling;
- receiving the requested traffic load data, wherein the traffic load data comprises a management information base (MIB) message that includes data elements associated with traffic load in the WLAN;
- logging the received traffic load data in a log file;
- mapping the logged traffic load data from a WLAN standard interface format to a third generation partnership project (3GPP) standard interface format to generate 3GPP format traffic load data;
- generating a traffic load report based on the 3GPP format traffic load data;
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- transmitting the traffic load report to a network manager (NM) using a type 2 interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.