System and method of performance measurements for wireless local area network access points

An element manager on a network side of a wireless local area network (WLAN) air interface, the element manager comprising:

• storage circuitry having a data structure to store a plurality of values;
• a timer that is to elapse after a predefined period;
• and
• an integration reference point agent of the element manager of the cellular network, coupled with the timer and the storage circuitry, to:
• begin the timer,
• detect that the timer has elapsed,
• transmit, based on the detection that the timer has elapsed, a request to a WLAN access point (AP) for a value of a counter that is to indicate a volume of data transmitted or received by the WLAN AP or a number of user equipments (UEs) associated with the WLAN AP,
• receive an indication of the value from the WLAN AP,
• store a first value in the data structure of the storage circuitry based on the value of the counter, and
• compute at least one of a mean value or a maximum value based on the values stored in the data structure.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising executable instructions, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by a computing system disposed in a core network of a cellular network, cause the computing system to:

• begin a timer;
• send, based on expiry of the timer, a request to a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) for a value of a counter that is to indicate a volume of data transmitted or received by the WLAN AP or a number of user equipments (UE) associated with the WLAN AP;
• receive, based on the request, the value of the counter from the wireless local area network access point;
• and
• send a first value to a network manager system of the cellular network based on the received value of the counter.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising executable instructions, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by a computing system disposed on a network side of a wireless local area network (WLAN) air interface of a cellular network, cause the computing system to:

• begin a timer;
• send, based on expiry of the timer, a request to a WLAN access point (AP) for a value of a counter that is to indicate a volume of data transmitted or received by the WLAN AP or a number of user equipments (UE) associated with the WLAN AP;
• receive, based on the request, the value of the counter from the wireless local area network access point;
• compute at least one of a mean value and a maximum value based on the value of the counter and at least one other value associated with the counter;
• and
• send at least one of the mean value or the maximum value to a network manager system of the cellular network.