Netgear, Inc.

Deeksha Kamath

Yu Te Lin

Fernando Lozano

Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel

ShunLiang Yu

Ting Chih Tseng

Andrew Patrick Yu

Sreekar Adapa

Chunyi Guo

Hsin Chung Li

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for client steering in mesh networks are disclosed. A first access point (AP) of a network sends a quality of service (QoS) data packet to a client device. A received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the client device is captured using the QoS data packet. A distance between the AP and client device is determined using a Wi-Fi round trip time. A time and day of week is determined. Using machine learning, a second AP is identified for steering the client device to, based on the RSSI, the distance, and the time and day of week. A machine learning model is trained to steer each client device to a respective AP for increasing a throughput of the network based on features extracted from client behavior of the client devices. The second AP is connected to the client device.

Intelligent client steering in mesh networks

Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for throughput estimation for a wireless device are disclosed. Throughput estimation includes generating network traffic for transmission between two nodes. The first node transmits the network traffic to the second node. The first node receives an acknowledgement from the second node that indicates successful receipt of the network traffic. The first node determines an amount of data successfully transmitted between the two nodes based on the reception of the acknowledgement. A throughput estimate is determined based on the amount of data successfully transmitted between the two nodes.

Throughput estimation for a wireless device

A multi-band network node has selectable backhaul/fronthaul configurations. Network nodes provide multi-band operation to take advantage of higher Internet speeds and to support lower latency (>2 Gbps, <4 ms latency) applications. A greater Wi-Fi device count (capacity) is supported by implementing communication over additional bands. Increased bandwidth is made available between connected nodes by selectively combining backhaul throughputs. Hardware quality-of-service (QoS) is provided by splitting traffic flows for low latency and data applications. Network coverage is extended by dynamic assignment of backhaul connections and by configuring unused backhauls as fronthauls.

Multi-band network node having selectable backhaul/fronthaul configurations

Growing community of inventors

San Jose, CA, United States of America

Deeksha Kamath