Promoting channel access fairness
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsQiang ZHOU, Shahnawaz SIRAJ, Andre BEAUDIN
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Abstract
An example access point may include a first radio operating at a channel in a wireless local area network (WLAN); and a processor to detect a wireless transmission based on a different network protocol than a WLAN protocol on the channel, wherein the wireless transmission is received from a second radio; tune a set of Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) values of the first radio in response to detecting the wireless transmission; apply a tuned set of EDCA values, to a beacon frame; transmit the beacon frame; and notify clients associated with the access point to update EDCA values with the tuned EDCA values to promote channel access fairness.
Claims15
An access point, comprising:
- a first radio operating at a channel in a wireless local area network (WLAN);
- a processor to:
- detect a wireless transmission based on a different network protocol than a WLAN protocol on the channel, wherein the wireless transmission is received from a second radio;
- tune a set of Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) values of the first radio in response to detecting the wireless transmission;
- apply a tuned set of EDCA values to a beacon frame;
- transmit the beacon frame;
- and
- notify client devices associated with the access point to update EDCA values with the tuned EDCA values to promote channel access fairness.
The access point of claim wherein the set of ACs correspond to a set of traffic types.
A method comprising:
- detecting, by an access point (AP) operating at a channel in a wireless local area network (WLAN), a wireless transmission from a radio operating in the channel, wherein the wireless transmission is based on an unlicensed Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network protocol;
- tuning, by the AP, a set of Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) values for each access category of the AP in response to detection of the wireless transmission;
- increasing, by the AP, a transmit power of the AP;
- applying, by the AP, the tuned set of EDCA values to a beacon frame;
- and
- transmitting, by the AP, the beacon frame and a notification to client devices associated with the AP to update a set of EDCA values with the aggressively tuned set of EDCA values in the beacon frame to promote channel access fairness.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by at least one processor of a network device, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
- detect a wireless transmission from a radio operating at a channel, wherein the network device operates at the channel and the wireless transmission is based on an unlicensed Long-Term Evolution network protocol;
- tune a set of Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) values for each access category of the network device in response to detection of the wireless transmission;
- apply the tuned set of EDCA values to a beacon frame and a probe response in response to receiving a probe request;
- transmit, at a specified interval, the beacon frame and a notification to client devices associated with the network device to update a set of EDCA values with the tuned set of EDCA values to promote channel access fairness;
- and
- transmit the probe response.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.