METHOD FOR WIFI CONNECTIVITY LOSS ANTICIPATION

摘要

A method for anticipating the loss of connectivity between a mobile device and a wireless short-range access point among a plurality of such wireless access points, this method comprising the following steps: —collecting a plurality of paths corresponding to the mobile device movements within the coverage areas of the access points to which the mobile device was successively associated without loss of connectivity, each path comprising a root access point at which a connectivity is originated and a dead-end access point at which the connectivity is lost; —detecting the current access point to which the mobile device is currently associated; identifying the paths comprising the current access point; —computing the risks of losing the connectivity when following each of the identified paths from the current access point to the root access point or to the dead-end access point of each of the identified paths.

主权项

1. A method for anticipating the loss of connectivity between a mobile device and a wireless short-range access point among a plurality of such wireless access points, said method comprising:
collecting the identifiers of access points to which the mobile device was successively associated without loss of connectivity and the duration of each of these associations so that reproducing a plurality of paths corresponding to the mobile device movements within the coverage areas of the said access points to which the said mobile device was successively associated without loss of connectivity, each path comprising a root access point at which a connectivity is originated and a dead-end access point at which the said connectivity is lost; detecting the current access point to which the mobile device is currently associated; identifying the paths comprising the said current access point; computing the risks of losing the connectivity when following each of the said identified paths from the said current access point to the root access point or to the dead-end access point of each of the said identified paths, the risk of losing connectivity when following a path from a first access point to a second access point being the inverse of the sum of the collected durations of association corresponding to the access points comprised in the said path from the said first access point to the said second access point.