Multi-band directional scanning
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsXuefu WANG, Jianpo HAN, Kuanyue LI
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Abstract
Examples described herein provide multi-band directional scanning. Examples may include receiving, by a first radio of a first network device operating at a first frequency band below the millimeter-wave (mmWave), a probe request from a second network device indicating a protocol and a particular sector receiving direction of the second network device, and in response to the protocol indicated by the probe request, transmitting, by a second radio of the first network device operating at a second frequency band within the mmWave, a probe response in each of one or more sector transmitting directions, wherein the second network device receives one or more probe responses in the particular sector receiving direction.
Claims20
A first network device, comprising:
- a first radio operating at a first frequency band below the millimeter-wave (mmWave);
- a second radio operating at a second frequency band within the mmWave;
- a first processing resource;
- and
- a first machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by the first processing resource to:
- receive, by the first radio, a probe request from a second network device indicating a protocol and a particular sector scanning direction of the second network device;
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- in response to the protocol indicated by the probe request, transmit, by the second radio, a probe response in each of one or more sector transmitting directions, wherein the second network device receives one or more probe responses in the particular sector scanning direction.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a first radio of a first network device operating at a first frequency band below the millimeter-wave (mmWave), a probe request from a second network device indicating a protocol and a particular sector scanning direction of the second network device;
- in response to the protocol indicated by the probe request, transmitting, by a second radio of the first network device operating at a second frequency band within the mmWave, a probe response in each of one or more sector transmitting directions, wherein the second network device receives one or more probe responses in the particular sector scanning direction.
An article comprising at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by the at least one processing resource of a first network device to:
- receive, by a first radio of the first network device operating at a first frequency band below the millimeter-wave (mmWave), a probe request from a second network device indicating a protocol and a particular sector scanning direction of the second network device;
- in response to the protocol indicated by the probe request, transmit, by a second radio of the first network device operating at a second frequency band within the mmWave, a probe response in each of one or more sector transmitting directions, wherein the second network device receives one or more probe responses in the particular sector scanning direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.