Distributed method for client optimization
AssigneeAruba Networks, Inc.
InventorJitao Fan
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Abstract
The present disclosure discloses a distributed method and network device for providing client optimization in WLANs. Specifically, a first access point detects a plurality of client devices. The first access point also receives information identifying a first set of client devices associated with the second access point. Then first access point then identifies a subset of the detected plurality of client devices that are also identified in the first set of client devices associated with the second access point. Finally, the first access point transmits to the second access point characteristics corresponding to the subset of the plurality of client devices. The characteristics are determined based on wireless signals received by the first access point from the subset of the plurality of client devices.
Claims18
A first access point comprising:
- a memory;
- one or more processors to:
- identify a first set of client devices associated with the first access point, wherein the first access point is in a cluster of access points;
- receive information identifying a second set of client devices associated with a second and different access point in the cluster of access points;
- identify a first subset of the first set of client devices such that each client device in the first subset also belongs to the second set of client devices associated with the second access point;
- determining characteristics corresponding to the first subset of the first set of client devices based on wireless signals received by the first access point from the subset of the first set of client devices;
- and
- transmit to the second access point the characteristics corresponding to the first subset of the first set of client devices.
A method comprising:
- identifying, by a first access point in a cluster of access points, a first set of client devices associated with the first access point;
- receiving, by a first access point, information identifying a second set of client devices associated with a second and different access point in the cluster of access points;
- selecting, by a first access point, a first subset of the first set of client devices, wherein each client device in the first subset also belongs to the second set of client devices associated with the second access point;
- determining, by the first access point, characteristics corresponding to the first subset of the first set of client devices based on wireless signals received by the first access point from the subset of the first set of client devices;
- and
- transmitting, by a first access point, the second access point the characteristics.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by one or more hardware of a first access point in a cluster of access points, cause performance of operations comprising:
- identifying a first set of client devices associated with the first access point;
- receiving information identifying a second set of client devices associated with a second and different access point in the cluster of access points;
- selecting a first subset of the first set of client devices, wherein each client device in the first subset is a member of the second set of client devices associated with the second access point;
- determining characteristics corresponding to the first subset of the first set of client devices based on wireless signals received by the first access point from the subset of the first set of client devices;
- and
- transmitting to the second access point the characteristics.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.