Wireless macro cell overlay

摘要

Overlaying a Wireless Macro Cell architecture on a Micro Cell network. WLAN MAC Address Translation (WMAT) is used to translate BSSIDs from the BSSID used to initialize a radio in an access node and identify communications between the radio in the access node and a controller, and the BSSID used over the air for Macro Cell operation. WMAT is used for transmit operations, translating the BSSID of outgoing packets to the Macro Cell BSSID prior to wireless transmission. On the receive side, packets undergo WMAT and transmission to the controller if the STN MAC address of the sender is in an ACK table associated with the radio, or the packet is one of a predetermined type. The ACK table is managed by transmit operations, and by control commands from the controller.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a first network device, a first frame comprising a first network identifier which is used by the first network device for over-the-air communication on a first channel in a first wireless network, wherein the first network identifier includes a first Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID); and translating, by the first network device, the first network identifier into a second network identifier based on a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the first network device, wherein the second network identifier including a second Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) which differs from the first BSSID.