Wireless access device with wildcard SSID response enabling association by client device requesting any SSID and system and method thereof

摘要

A variety of techniques are described in which wireless access points or base stations are deployed in wireless networks to achieve geographic isolation, i.e., distinct zones of operation having well-defined geographic boundaries, and increased overall capacity in an area having a high population of access and client devices.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a plurality of access devices for enabling wireless access to a network by a plurality of client devices; first ones of the access devices configured to transmit and receive signals having a first polarization; and second ones of the access devices configured to transmit and receive signals having a second polarization different from the first polarization; wherein the first and second access devices are deployed to mitigate friendly interference among the access devices, and to cause signal-to-noise ratios at the client devices that cause the client devices to migrate to nearest ones of the access devices; the access devices are configured to implement one or more zone-of-operation techniques, thereby resulting in a wireless network with one or more zones of operation, each of the zones of operation corresponding to a different level of network access; and one or more of the access devices are configured with a wild card response to facilitate association of a client device for any service set identifier requested in transmissions from the client device; whereby the client device is caused to associate with a nearest one of the one or more access devices and gain access to the network with a level according to a zone of operation corresponding to the nearest one of the one or more access devices without a specific service set identifier requested by the client device being preprogrammed into the access devices before the specific service set identifier is requested by the client device.