Management of on-off states for a group of radios
AssigneeArista Networks, Inc.
InventorsNadeem Akhtar, Preyas Hathi
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Abstract
Control circuitry may be configured to determine on-off states of radios in wireless access points. The control circuitry may determine a transmit power for each radio in the set of radios, identify a subset of radios from the set for which the one or more determined transmit powers are less than a transmit power threshold, turn off each radio in the subset of radios, and determine updated transmit powers for the set of radios excluding the subset of radios.
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A method of determining on-off states of a set of radios for a same radio-frequency band in corresponding wireless access points, the method comprising:
- determining a transmit power for each radio in the set of radios;
- identifying a subset of radios from the set for which the one or more determined transmit powers are less than a transmit power threshold;
- turning off each radio in the subset of radios;
- determining updated transmit powers for the set of radios excluding the subset of radios based on the subset of radios being turned off;
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- operating the set of radios excluding the subset of radios using the updated transmit powers.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors for a wireless system, cause the one or more processors to:
- identify a group of multi-band access points, each multi-band access point containing at least a first radio operable to convey radio-frequency signals at a first set of frequencies and a second radio operable to convey radio-frequency signals at a second set of frequencies at least some of which are higher than the first set of frequencies;
- determine a candidate list of the first radios containing first radios eligible to be placed in an off state;
- determine whether operation of the first radios, with the first radios in the candidate list placed in the off state, satisfies a wireless coverage criterion;
- determine a transmit power for each of the first radios excluding the first radios in the candidate list;
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- operate each of the first radios excluding the first radios in the candidate list based on the determined transmit power and place the first radios in the candidate list in the off state.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors in a wireless system, cause the one or more processors to:
- identify a group of radios operable in a wireless local area network (WLAN) radio-frequency band in corresponding wireless access points;
- determine a first subset of radios in the group to be placed in an on state;
- determine a second subset of radios in the group to be placed in an off state;
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- determine whether operation of the first subset of radios in the on state and the second subset of radios in the off state satisfies a criterion indicative of a target wireless coverage for the WLAN radio-frequency band;
- place the radios in the second subset in the off state based on the criterion being satisfied;
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- determine transmit powers for the radios in the first subset based on the radios in the second subset being placed in the off state;
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- operate the radios in the first subset based on the determined transmit powers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.