METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR GRAPHICALLY INDICATING STATION EFFICIENCY AND PSEUDO-DYNAMIC ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE INFORMATION FOR A NETWORK OF WIRELESS STATIONS

摘要

Methods and apparatuses providing a visual metric of the efficiency of a network of devices communicating through a wireless access point (AP). These apparatuses and methods may also determine and display pseudo-dynamic error vector magnitude (EVM) information for a network of wireless stations, including displaying a pseudo-dynamic constellation diagrams using EVM information. These methods and apparatuses may transmit a plurality of sounding packets from each of one or more radio devices different modulation types (e.g., BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM and 1024QAM), and receiving at least some of the sounding packets at a second radio device (e.g., an access point) and determining EVM information from the received sounding packets, and displaying (or providing for display) a constellation diagram including pseudo-dynamic EVM information that is a constrained approximation of actual EVM information.

主权项

1. A method of optimizing channel selection for an access point wirelessly connected to one or more stations, the method comprising:
collecting, in the access point, 24 hours or longer worth of frequency spectral information; collecting, in the access point, usage data for the one or more stations wirelessly connected to the access point; determining a ranking of spectral efficiency, in bits per second per channel width, for a plurality of frequency channels based on the collected frequency spectral information and the usage data; and displaying one or more of a top-ranked frequency channel based on the determining a ranking.