System and method to measure an error rate of a wireless local area network
AssigneeIntel IP Corporation
InventorJoey Chou
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Abstract
Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between an element manager and a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP). The WLAN AP may be configured with one or more counters. The one or more counters may measure events, such as data transmission and/or reception at the WLAN AP or a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) procedure by the WLAN AP. The element manager may be configured to read one or more of these counters and compute one or more values based on the values read from the one or more counters. The element manager may be configured to communicate the one or more computed values to a network manager. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
Claims25
An element manager comprising:
- storage circuitry to store a first value associated with successful transmission or reception by a wireless local area network access point and a second value associated with errors in transmission or reception by the wireless local area network access point;
- a timer that is to elapse after a predefined period;
- and
- an integration reference point agent, coupled with the timer and the storage circuitry, to:
- begin the timer,
- detect that the timer has elapsed,
- read, based on the detection that the timer has elapsed, a value of a first counter that is based on successful transmission or reception by the wireless local area network access point,
- store the first value in the storage circuitry based on the value of the first counter,
- read, based on the detection that the timer has elapsed, a value of a second counter that is based on errors in transmission or reception by the wireless local area network access point,
- store the second value in the storage circuitry based on the value of the second counter, and
- compute an error rate value based on the first and second values stored in the storage circuitry.
An element manager comprising:
- storage circuitry to store a first value associated with a failed data transmission by a wireless local area network access point;
- a timer that is to elapse after a predefined period;
- and
- an integration reference point agent, coupled with the timer and the storage circuitry, to:
- begin the timer,
- detect that the timer has elapsed,
- read, based on the detection that the timer has elapsed, a value of a counter that is based on failure to detect one or more acknowledgment messages associated with data transmission by the wireless local area network access point, and
- store the first value in the storage circuitry based on the value of the counter.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising executable instructions, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by a computing system, cause the computing system to:
- begin a timer;
- send, based on expiry of the timer, a first request to a wireless local area network access point for a value of a first counter associated with successful transmission or reception by the wireless local area network access point;
- store a first value based on a response to the first request received from the wireless local area network access point;
- send, based on expiry of the timer, a second request to a wireless local area network access point for a value of a second counter associated with unsuccessful transmission or reception by the wireless local area network access point;
- store a second value based on a response to the second request received from the wireless local area network access point;
- compute an error rate value based on the first and second values;
- and
- send the computed error rate value to a network manager system.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising executable instructions, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by a computing system, cause the computing system to:
- begin a timer;
- send, based on expiry of the timer, a request to a wireless local area network access point for a value of a counter that is based on acknowledgment messages associated with carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance by the wireless local area network access point;
- store a first value based on a response to the first request received from the wireless local area network access point;
- and
- send the first value to a network manager system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.