Co-channel utilization estimation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8976702-B2
Application number	US-201213367446-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 7, 2012
Priority date	Feb 7, 2012
Publication date	Mar 10, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015

Abstract

Devices, methods and instructions encoded on computer readable media are provided herein for estimation of the available bandwidth in a frequency channel shared by a first access point and at least one neighboring access point. In one example, an impact value that represents the impact of traffic associated with the neighboring access point on the first access point is calculated. Based on the impact value, a first utilization metric associated with the first access point is generated. The first utilization metric represents the bandwidth available on the frequency channel in the presence of the traffic associated with the neighboring access point.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
for a frequency channel on which a first access point and at least one neighboring access point of the first access point are capable of operating in a wireless network, calculating a first impact value that represents an impact of traffic associated with the neighboring access point on the first access point, wherein the calculating includes:
determining a severity measure for the neighboring access point that represents co-channel int…

Assignees

• Chan Douglas
• Pang Tak Ming Francis
• Janani Mohammad
• Cisco Tech Inc

Inventors

• Chan Douglas
• Pang Tak Ming Francis
• Janani Mohammad

Classifications

• H04W28/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W24/08 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W28/20

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W84/12

  Electricity · mapped topic