System and method of performance measurements for wireless local area network access points
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 statistics based on association of user equipment (UE) with 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 and a second value associated with data volume;
- 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 associated with data transmission or reception by a wireless local area network access point,
- compare the value of the counter to the second value, and
- update the first value based on the comparison of the value of the counter to the second value.
An element manager comprising:
- storage circuitry having a data structure to store a plurality of values;
- 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 association of user equipment with a wireless local area network access point,
- store a first value in the data structure of the storage circuitry based on the value of the counter,
- compute at least one of a mean value or a maximum value based on the values stored in the data structure.
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 associated with data transmission or reception by the wireless local area network access point;
- receive, based on the request, the value of the counter from the wireless local area network access point;
- and
- send a first value to a network manager system based on the received 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 request to a wireless local area network access point for a value of a counter that is based on association of user equipment with the wireless local area network access point;
- receive, based on the request, the value of the counter from the wireless local area network access point;
- compute at least one of a mean value and a maximum value based on the value of the counter and at least one other value associated with the counter;
- and
- send at least one of the mean value or the maximum value to a network manager system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.