Method of balancing wireless load and access controller
AssigneeHangzhou H3C Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsHao Wang, Archana Suresh
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a method of balancing wireless load and an Access Controller (AC). The method includes: receiving by an Access Controller (AC) an association request of joining an Access Port (AP) sent by a Station (STA); calculating wireless load of the AP that the STA requests to join; determining whether one or more preset conditions are met, if the one or more present conditions are met, accepting the association request sent by the STA; otherwise, rejecting the association request sent by the STA. In the present invention, when an AP's wireless load is too large, STAs can be distributed to other APs, thereby optimizing load balance in the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN).
Claims20
A method of balancing wireless load, comprising:
- receiving by an Access Controller (AC) an association request of joining an Access Port (AP) sent by a Station (STA);
- calculating wireless load of the AP that the STA requests to join;
- determining whether one or more preset conditions are met, if the one or more present conditions are met, accepting the association request sent by the STA;
- otherwise, rejecting the association request sent by the STA.
An Access Controller (AC), comprising:
- an association request processing module, capable of receiving an association request of joining an Access Port (AP) sent by an STA, sending out information of the AP that the STA requests to join, receiving wireless load of the AP that the STA requests to join, and if the wireless load meets the preset acceptance condition, accepting the STA's association request;
- otherwise, rejecting the STA's association request;
- an AP wireless load calculating module, capable of receiving the information of the AP sent by the association request processing module, calculating wireless load of the AP, and sending the wireless load of the AP to the association request processing module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.