Neighboring network devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10143025-B2
Application number	US-201615338058-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2016
Priority date	Oct 28, 2016
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

Example implementations relate to neighboring network devices. For example, a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource can cause a computer to determine a characteristic affecting a subset of a plurality of network devices. The instructions can cause the processing resource to determine that at least two of the subset of the plurality of network devices that are affected by the characteristic are neighbors. The instructions can cause the processing resource to indicate a region to be associated with each network device of the subset based on the determination that at least two of the subset of the plurality of network devices are neighbors.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processing resource, cause a computer to:
determine a characteristic of a radio-frequency environment in a wireless local area network, the wireless local area network comprising a subset of network devices;
determine that at least two network devices of the subset of network devices are within a same radio-frequency environment;
indicate a first region to be associated with each network device of the subset of network devices based on a determination that at least two of the subset of network devices are neighbors; and
merge the first region with a second region to identify a new region including a combined subset of network devices affected by the characteristic of the radio-frequency environment in the wireless local area network.

2. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable by the processing resource to perform a corrective action to prevent the characteristic from affecting the subset of network devices.

3. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 2 , wherein the instructions are executable by the processing resource to perform the corrective action in response to a quantity of the network devices that exhibit a large value of the characteristic.

4. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic comprises one of a higher utilization and a higher noise floor compared to a network device that is not in the subset of network devices.

5. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 4 , wherein a root cause of the characteristic comprises Wi-Fi interference and a higher multicast compared to a network device that is not in the subset of network devices.

6. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the second region comprises a second subset of the network devices and shares at least one network device with the first region.

7. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the characteristic comprises one of a channel interference, a noise floor, or a channel utilization.

8. A non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processing resource cause a computer to:
determine a characteristic of a radio-frequency environment in a wireless local area network, the wireless local area network comprising a subset of network devices;
determine that:
at least a first two network devices of the subset of network devices are within a same radio-frequency environment; and
at least a second two network devices of the subset of network devices are neighbors;
indicate a first region from a number of regions that each of the network devices are within based on a neighbor determination; and
merge the first region with a second region to identify a new region including a combined subset of network devices affected by the characteristic of the radio-frequency environment in the wireless local area network.

9. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the instructions are executable to indicate that a first two network devices of the subset of network devices are in a first region and a second two network devices of the subset of network devices are in a second region and none of the network devices in the first region are in the second region.

10. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the instructions are executable to indicate at least one of the first two network devices of the subset of network devices is a neighbor with at least one of the second two network devices of the subset of network devices.

11. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the instructions are executable to indicate that the first two network devices of the subset of network devices and the second two network devices of the subset of network devices are in a same region.

12. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the instructions are executable to: determine that at least a third two network devices of the subset of network devices are neighbors; and
indicate that the first two network devices of the subset of network devices are in a first region, the second two network devices of the subset of network devices are in a second region, and the third two network devices of the subset of network devices are in a third region.

13. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the instructions are executable to indicate that none of the first two network devices, the second two network devices, and the third two network devices are neighbors.

14. A method, comprising:
determining a characteristic of a radio-frequency environment in a wireless local area network, the wireless local area network comprising a subset of network devices; determining that:
at least a first group of the subset of network devices are neighbors with each other; and at least a second group of the subset of network devices are neighbors with each other; and
indicating a first region from a number of regions that the first group of the subset of network devices and the second group of the subset of network devices are within based on the determination which of the subset of network devices are neighbors;
merging the first region with a second region to identify a new region including a combined subset of network devices affected by the characteristic of the radio-frequency environment in the wireless local area network; and
performing a corrective action to prevent the characteristic from spreading to the subset of network devices.

15. The method of claim 14 , comprising:
determining that at least one of the first group and at least one of the second group are neighbors; and
indicating that the first group and the second group are in a same region.

16. The method of claim 14 , comprising:
determining that there is not one of the first group and not one of the second group that are neighbors; and
indicating that the first group is in a first region and the second group is in a second region.

17. The method of claim 16 , comprising determining that the first group includes more network devices than the second group.

Assignees

• Aruba Networks Inc
• Hewlett Packard Entpr Dev Lp

Inventors

• Sugatoor Manaswini Lakshmikanth
• Iyer Pradeep
• Agarwal Gopal
• Yadav Brijesh Kumar

Classifications

• H04W16/18

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• H04W4/08

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• H04W76/14 Primary

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• H04W4/021 Primary

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• H04W24/02

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