Universal repeater, a method of operating a universal repeater and a network including the same
AssigneeAirties Kablosuz lletisim San. Ve Dis Tic. A.S.
InventorsFirat BIRLIK, Can IHAN, Mehmet KARACA
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Abstract
A Universal Repeater (UR) configured to pair with an uplink in a network. The UR may include an interface configured to interface wirelessly with a uplink along a selected route between the UR and an access point (AP) in a network; and a memory having machine executable code therein that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to determine the uplink based on data received from a plurality of candidate uplinks, and instruct the interface to pair with the uplink.
Claims15
A method of determining a selected uplink for a universal repeater (UR) with an access point (AP) in a network, the method comprising:
- detecting, at the universal repeater, broadcast packets from a plurality of devices providing a plurality of candidate uplinks operating in the network, the plurality of devices including the access point and one or more further universal repeaters;
- determining, at the universal repeater, the selected uplink based on data in the broadcast packets indicative of an end-to-end throughput from the universal repeater to the access point via each of the plurality of candidate uplinks;
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- instructing the universal repeater to pair with one of the plurality of devices providing the selected uplink.
A universal repeater comprising:
- an interface configured to interface with a selected uplink along a route between the universal repeater and an access point in a network having a plurality of candidate links;
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- a memory having machine executable code therein that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to,
- detect broadcast packets from a plurality of devices providing a plurality of candidate uplinks operating in the network, the plurality of devices including the access point and one or more further universal repeaters,
- determine the selected uplink based on data in the broadcast packets indicative of an end-to-end throughput from the universal repeater to the access point via each of the plurality of candidate uplinks, and
- instruct the universal repeater to pair with one of the plurality of devices providing the selected uplink.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.