Method and apparatus for managing a wireless network access point beacon

摘要

An approach is provided for managing a wireless network access point beacon. The approach involves determining to one or more of (1) cause, at least in part, a beacon pointer associated with a beacon of a wireless network access point to be transmitted and (2) cause, at least in part, a beacon schedule associated with the beacon of the wireless network access point to be adjusted based, at least in part, on a derivation of one or more other beacon schedules associated with one or more other beacons of one or more other wireless network access points. The determination to cause the adjustment of the beacon schedule is based, at least in part, on a received indication of a potential conflict between the beacon and the one or more other beacons.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining to one or more of (1) cause, at least in part, a beacon pointer associated with a beacon of a wireless network access point to be transmitted and (2) cause, at least in part, a beacon schedule associated with the beacon of the wireless network access point to be adjusted based, at least in part, on a derivation of one or more other beacon schedules associated with one or more other beacons of one or more other wireless network access points to avoid a conflict between the beacon schedule and the one or more other beacon schedules, wherein the determination to cause the adjustment of the beacon schedule is based, at least in part, on one or more of a determined conflicting beacon schedule and a received indication of a potential conflict between the beacon and the one or more other beacons; determining an average signaling rate; processing the average signaling rate to determine if the signaling rate meets a predetermined criteria; and causing, at least in part, the occupancy level of the wireless medium to be determined based, at least in part, on a determination that the average signaling rate fails to meet the predetermined criteria; wherein the indication of the potential conflict between the beacon and the one or more other beacons is received by way of a mobile device in communication with the wireless network access point and one or more of (1) at least one of the one or more other wireless network access points and (2) another mobile device in communication with at least one of the one or more other wireless network access points; wherein the beacon pointer is transmitted by way of shared channel arbitration transmitting broadcast signaling or by way of unicast addressed frames.