Separation of radio chains between mission-critical devices and enterprise clients
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsSubbiah Nagarajan Veerabudran, Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj
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Abstract
Systems and methods for separation of access point radio chains between mission-critical devices and enterprise clients include grouping the radio chains to form a plurality of logical radios; assigning, to a first frequency channel of the access point, a first one of the logical radios; assigning, to a second frequency channel of the access point, a second one of the logical radios; the first frequency channel occupying a different frequency band than the second frequency channel; exchanging high-quality-of-service (QoS) data with one or more high-QoS devices over the first logical radio; and exchanging low-QoS data with one or more low-QoS devices over the second logical radio.
Claims15
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a hardware processor of a computing component of an access point having a plurality of radio chains, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause the hardware processor to:
- group the radio chains of an access point to form a plurality of logical radios, wherein each radio chain includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver and antenna, and wherein the plurality of logical radios includes a first logical radio having a first service set identifier (SSID) to provide communications with a first quality of service (QoS) and a second logical radio having a second SSID to provide communications with a second QoS, the first QoS being a higher performance standard than the second QoS;
- assign, to a first frequency channel of the access point, the first logical radio;
- assign, to a second frequency channel of the access point, the second logical radio, wherein the first frequency channel occupies a different frequency band than the second frequency channel;
- conceal the first SSID of the first logical radio and broadcast the second SSID of the second logical radio;
- exchange a first set of data at the first QoS with one or more high-QoS devices over the first logical radio;
- and
- exchange a second set of data at the second QoS with one or more low-QoS devices over the second logical radio.
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A method for an access point having a plurality of radio chains, the method comprising:
- grouping the radio chains of the access point to form a plurality of logical radios, wherein each radio chain includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver and antenna, and wherein the plurality of logical radios includes a first logical radio having a first service set identifier (SSID) to provide communications with a first quality of service (QoS) and a second logical radio having a second SSID to provide communications with a second QoS, the first QoS being a higher performance standard than the second QoS;
- assigning, to a first frequency channel of the access point, the first logical radio;
- assigning, to a second frequency channel of the access point, the second logical;
- radio, wherein the first frequency channel occupies a different frequency band than the second frequency channel;
- concealing the first SSID of the first logical radio and broadcasting the second SSID of the second logical radio;
- exchanging a first set of data at the first QoS with one or more high-QoS devices over the first logical radio;
- and
- exchanging a second set of data at the second QoS with one or more low-QoS devices over the second logical radio.
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An access point comprising:
- a plurality of radio chains;
- a hardware processor;
- and
- a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the hardware processor to:
- group the radio chains to form a plurality of logical radios, wherein each radio chain includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver and antenna, and wherein the plurality of logical radios includes a first logical radio having a first service set identifier (SSID) to provide communications with a first quality of service (QoS) and a second logical radio having a second SSID to provide communications with a second QoS, the first QoS being a higher performance standard than the second QoS;
- assign, to a first frequency channel of the access point, the first logical radio;
- assign, to a second frequency channel of the access point, the second logical radio, wherein the first frequency channel occupies a different frequency band than the second frequency channel;
- conceal the first SSID of the first logical radio and broadcast the second SSID of the second logical radio;
- exchange a first set of data at the first QoS with one or more high-QoS devices over the first logical radio;
- and
- exchange a second set of data at the second QoS with one or more low-QoS devices over the second logical radio.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.