Wireless station protocol apparatus
AssigneeAutocell Laboratories, Inc.
InventorFloyd Backes
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Abstract
The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically choose a channel such that channel usage is optimized. Furthermore, APs can perform automatic power adjustment so that multiple APs can operate on the same channel while minimizing interference with each other. Wireless stations are load balanced across APs so that user bandwidth is optimized. A movement detection scheme provides seamless roaming of stations between APs.
Claims3
Apparatus for use by a station in a wireless communications environment wherein multiple channels are available for communication, comprising:
- logic for receiving Announce messages from access points, the Announce messages indicating the access points' presence and protocol capability to the station;
- logic for sending Bid messages to an access point to indicate that the station desires to communicate in the wireless communications environment via the access point;
- receiving an Accept message from the access point in response to the Bid message, the Accept message indicating that the access point will allow the station to communicate in the wireless communications environment via the access point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.