Tp-Link Systems Inc.

Dong Shen

Bin He

Rui Wang

Yang Jiang

This disclosure provides a method for determining a terminal in a sticky state. The method includes: determining whether a roaming target determination is supported for a terminal by a first AP; performing an operation for the roaming target determination based on determining that the roaming target determination is supported; performing at least one of determining that the terminal is in a first sticky state based on a determination that the terminal is not connected to a second AP according to a roaming target suggestion of the first AP, based on a finding of one or more roaming targets by the operation; or determining that the terminal is in a second sticky state based on a strength of a signal between the terminal and the first AP being smaller than a first strength threshold, based on determining that the roaming target determination is not supported or a failure of the operation.

Method and access point for determining and processing a terminal in a sticky roaming state

This disclosure provides a method for ping pong roaming control performed by an access point (AP), a method for ping pong roaming control performed by a controller, an AP, a controller, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and a computer program product for processing/identifying ping pong roaming. The method for ping pong roaming control, performed by an AP includes: determining association switching behaviors of a station (STA) based on association and/or disassociation behaviors of the STA; identifying one or more connection instability events of the STA based on the association switching behaviors of the STA; and reporting at least one of the one or more connection instability events of the STA to a controller for the controller to identify a ping pong roaming event of the STA between multiple APs.

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Dong Shen