Contention adjustment method, apparatus, and system in wireless local area network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9924407-B2
Application number	US-201514978982-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 22, 2015
Priority date	Dec 23, 2014
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

A contention adjustment method for use in an apparatus and a system in a wireless local area network. The method includes acquiring an air interface occupancy time ratio of a terminal that is in a service operating state, and adjusting an uplink data sending threshold of the terminal according to the air interface occupancy time ratio of the terminal, where the air interface occupancy time ratio of the terminal is a ratio of an air interface occupancy time of the terminal to an air interface time, and the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is a ratio of a volume of data sent by the terminal to an air interface data sending rate of the terminal in the air interface time. The present disclosure may avoid that a terminal with a stronger demand excessively preempts a terminal with a weaker demand.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A contention adjustment method implemented by an access point in a wireless local area network, wherein the method comprises:
acquiring an air interface occupancy time ratio of a terminal that is in a service operating state; and
adjusting an uplink data sending threshold of the terminal according to the air interface occupancy time ratio of the terminal,
wherein the air interface occupancy time ratio of the terminal is a ratio of an air interface occupancy time of the terminal to an air interface time,
wherein the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is a ratio of a transmission data volume of the terminal to an air interface data sending rate of the terminal in the air interface time, and
wherein adjusting the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal according to the air interface occupancy time ratio of the terminal comprises:
determining whether the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is less than a second threshold;
responsive to determining that the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is less than the second threshold, increasing the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal;
responsive to determining that the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is not less than the second threshold, acquiring a channel idle rate of the access point; and
responsive to determining that the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is not less than the second threshold, maintaining or decreasing the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal according to the channel idle rate of the access point.

2. The contention adjustment method according to claim 1 , wherein before acquiring the air interface occupancy time ratio of the terminal that is in the service operating state, the contention adjustment method further comprises:
detecting a first quantity of uplink service packets of the terminal;
acquiring an uplink service packet sending frequency of the terminal according to the first quantity of uplink service packets of the terminal, wherein the uplink service packet sending frequency is a second quantity of uplink service packets of the terminal in a unit time; and
determining a service status of the terminal by:
determining that the terminal is in a service operating state when the uplink service packet sending frequency of the terminal is greater than or equal to a first threshold; and
determining that the terminal is in a service shortage state when the uplink service packet sending frequency of the terminal is less than the first threshold.

3. The contention adjustment method according to claim 1 , wherein maintaining or decreasing the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal according to the channel idle rate of the access point comprises:
maintaining the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal when the channel idle rate is greater than or equal to a third threshold; and
decreasing the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal when the channel idle rate is less than the third threshold.

4. The contention adjustment method according to claim 3 , wherein after decreasing the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal, the contention adjustment method further comprises:
detecting an actual data sending rate of the terminal;
comparing the detected actual data sending rate of the terminal with the uplink data sending threshold;
receiving data from the terminal after decreasing the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal;
performing discontinuous packet dropping on the received data when the actual data sending rate of the terminal is greater than or equal to the uplink data sending threshold;
sending, to an upper layer protocol of the access point in a delayed manner, data that has undergone the discontinuous packet dropping;
detecting the discontinuous packet dropping and a delay of the terminal; and
negotiating with the terminal when the discontinuous packet dropping and the delay are detected so that the terminal decreases a data sending rate until an actual data sending rate of the terminal is less than or equal to the uplink data sending threshold.

5. A contention adjustment apparatus in a wireless local area network, wherein the contention adjustment apparatus comprises:
a processor configured to:
acquire an air interface occupancy time ratio of a terminal that is in a service operating state; and
adjust an uplink data sending threshold of the terminal according to the air interface occupancy time ratio of the terminal,

wherein the air interface occupancy time ratio of the terminal is a ratio of an air interface occupancy time of the terminal to an air interface time,
wherein the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is a ratio of a transmission data volume of the terminal to an air interface data sending rate of the terminal in the air interface time, and
wherein the processor is further configured to:
determine whether the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is less than a second threshold;
responsive to determining that the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is less than the second threshold, increase the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal;
responsive to determining that the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is not less than the second threshold, acquire a channel idle rate of the access point; and
responsive to determining that the air interface occupancy time of the terminal is not less than the second threshold, maintain or decrease the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal according to the channel idle rate of the access point.

6. The contention adjustment apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
detect a first quantity of uplink service packets of the terminal;
acquire an uplink service packet sending frequency of the terminal according to the first quantity of uplink service packets of the terminal, wherein the uplink service packet sending frequency is a second quantity of uplink service packets of the terminal in a unit time; and
determine a service status of the terminal by:
determining that the terminal is in a service operating state when the uplink service packet sending frequency of the terminal is greater than or equal to a first threshold; and
determining that the terminal is in a service shortage state when the uplink service packet sending frequency of the terminal is less than the first threshold.

7. The contention adjustment apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to adjust the uplink data sending threshold by:
maintaining the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal when the channel idle rate is greater than or equal to a third threshold; and
decreasing the uplink data sending threshold of the terminal when the channel idle rate is less than the third threshold.

8. The contention adjustment apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
detect an actual data sending rate of the terminal;
compare the actual data sending rate of the terminal with the uplink data sending threshold;
perform discontinuous packet dropping on received data that is sent by the terminal when the actual data sending rate of the terminal is greater than or equal to the uplink data sending threshold;
send, to an upper layer protocol of the access point in a delayed manner, data that has undergone the discontinuous packet dropping;
detect the discontinuous packet dropping and a delay of the terminal; and
negotiate with the terminal when the discontinuous packet dropping and the delay are detected so that the terminal decreases a data sending rate until an actual data sending rate of the terminal is less than or equal to the uplink data send

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ruan Wei
• Wan Xiaobing
• Wang Mingyue
• Tan Hongyi

Classifications

• H04L47/32

  by discarding or delaying data units, e.g. packets or frames · CPC title

• H04W28/0289 Primary

  Congestion control (load shedding arrangements in network planning H04W16/08; performing reselection for handling the traffic H04W36/22; wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12) · CPC title

• H04W76/048

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W28/0205 Primary

  at the air interface (dynamic wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12) · CPC title

• H04W28/22

  Negotiating communication rate · CPC title