Measuring channel performance in wireless local area networks
AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorsFrancis SCAHILL, Simon RINGLAND
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Abstract
There is herein disclosed a method of measuring the performance of a first communication channel at a first access point in a WLAN, in which the first access point is associated to a client device so that the first access point can send data to, and/or receive data from, the client device on a second communication channel, the method including disassociating the first access point to the client device and associating a second access point to the client device; switching the working channel of the first access point from the second communication channel to the first communication channel; and making one or more performance measurements in respect of the first communication channel at the first access point.
Claims15
A method of measuring performance of a first communication channel at a first access point in a wireless local area network (WLAN), in which the first access point is associated to a client device so that the first access point can send data to, or receive data from, the client device on a second communication channel, the method comprising:
- disassociating the first access point from the client device and associating a second access point to the client device;
- switching a working channel of the first access point from the second communication channel to the first communication channel;
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- making one or more performance measurements in respect of the first communication channel at the first access point.
A wireless local area network (WLAN) comprising:
- a first access point and a second access point, the first access point being configured to send data to, or receive data from, a client device on a second communication channel, the second access point being configured to send data to, or receive data from, the client device;
- means for switching a working channel of the first access point from the second communication channel to the first communication channel;
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- means for making performance measurements in respect of the first communication channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.