Dynamic Beamforming Configuration Based on Network Conditions

摘要

A method includes steering client devices to access points that potentially increase capacity of communications using beamformed transmissions. In particular, this includes determining the best access points for beamforming to a particular client or a group of clients in the network for an improved throughput performance in the deployment or a subset of access points.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining characteristics of at least one client device currently associated with one of a plurality of access points; based at least on capabilities of a subset of the plurality of access points, selecting the subset of the plurality of access points as candidate access points for providing at least one client device access to one or more network resources; testing connections between each of the subset of candidate access points and the at least one client device; based on testing the connections between each of the subset of candidate access points and the at least one client device, selecting one of the subset of candidate access points to provide the at least one client device access to the one or more network resources; wherein the method is determined by at least one device comprising a hardware processor.