Managing wireless wide area network bandwidth constraints in a communication network
AssigneeSymbol Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTarun Maharana, Puneet Batta
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Abstract
A technique to manage wireless wide area network bandwidth constraints in a communication network includes; prioritizing client activities in a serving access point; detecting that wired domain access is inactive while wireless wide area domain access is active; and utilizing an available bandwidth of the wireless aide area domain access for the highest priority client activities. The lower priority client activities can be address in various different ways including transferring to other available wired access.
Claims12
A method to manage wireless wide area network bandwidth constraints in a communication network having wired domain access, wireless local area domain access, and wireless wide area domain access, the method comprising:
- prioritizing client activities of client devices by a serving access point of the client devices, wherein prioritizing includes assigning different prioritized client activities to either a critical-priority wireless local area network or at least one non-critical-priority wireless local area network;
- detecting that wired domain access is inactive to the serving access point while wireless wide area domain access is active for the serving access point;
- in response to detecting that the wired domain access is inactive while the wireless wide area domain access is active, the serving access point utilizing an available bandwidth of the wireless wide area domain access to transfer critical-priority client activities in the critical-priority wireless local area network assigned to the wireless wide area domain access;
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- de-authenticating at least one client device running non-critical-priority client activities on at least one of the non-critical-priority wireless local area networks.
An access point configured to manage wireless wide area network bandwidth constraints in a communication network having wired domain access, wireless local area domain access, and wireless wide area domain access, the access point comprising:
- a transceiver configured to communicate with client devices serviced by the access point;
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- a processor coupled to the transceiver, the processor configured to prioritize client activities of client devices serviced by the access point, wherein prioritizing includes assigning different prioritized client activities to either a critical-priority wireless local area network or at least one non-critical-priority wireless local area network, detect that wired domain access is inactive to the serving access point while wireless wide area domain access is active for the serving access point, in response to detecting that the wired domain access is inactive while the wireless wide area domain access is active, the serving access point utilizing an available bandwidth of the wireless wide area domain access to transfer critical-priority client activities in the critical-priority wireless local area network assigned to the wireless wide area domain access, and de-authenticate at least one client device running non-critical-priority client activities on at least one of the non-critical-priority wireless local area networks.
A system configured to manage wireless wide area network bandwidth constraints in a communication network having wired domain access, wireless local area domain access, and wireless wide area domain access, the system comprising:
- wired domain access;
- wireless wide area domain access;
- wireless local area domain access including at least two wireless local area network;
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- an access point configured to prioritize client activities of client devices serviced by the access point, wherein prioritizing includes assigning different prioritized client activities to either a critical-priority wireless local area network or at least one non-critical-priority wireless local area network, detect that the wired domain access to the serving access point is inactive while the wireless wide area domain access is active for the serving access point, in response to detecting that the wired domain access is inactive while the wireless wide area domain access is active, the serving access point utilizing an available bandwidth of the wireless wide area domain access to transfer critical-priority client activities in the critical-priority wireless local area network assigned to the wireless wide area domain access, and de-authenticate at least one client device running non-critical-priority client activities on at least one of the non-critical-priority wireless local area networks.
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