Qualcomm Incorporated

Thanigaivel Nagendran

Prakash Chennichetty

Subramanian Anantharaman

Sreekanth Natarajan

Manoj Sekar

Yashwanth Jayaprakash

Vignesh Elumalai

Nitin Barattwaj Prabakar

Antony Sivi Siddharth Thomas

This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for steering a wireless device in a multi-AP environment based on target AP information. The target AP information includes signal strength data for a particular region in which the wireless device is located. The coverage areas of the multiple APs are each segmented into regions and a unique identifier is assigned to each region. When the wireless device is first eligible for steering in a particular region, it generates a measurement report which is associated with that region in a measurement map. When the wireless device is subsequently eligible for steering in that region, instead of generating another measurement report, the previously collected target AP information in the measurement map is used to steer the wireless device to a target AP.

Signal strength mapping for steering a client

This disclosure provides methods, apparatuses and systems for placing a range extender (RE) based on a distance between the RE and an access point (AP). An RE may determine a distance between the RE and AP based on round trip timing (RTT) information. In some aspects, the RE may exchange fine timing measurement (FTM) frames with the AP. The RE may determine a distance between itself and the AP based on the RTT information. Based on the distance between the RE and AP, the RE may provide a coarse placement indicator for improving the RE's location. The RE also may determine a signal strength or channel state information (CSI) with respect to the AP. Based on the signal strength or the CSI, the RE may provide a fine placement indicator indicating the RE may be placed nearer or further from the AP, or remain at its current location.

Range extender (RE) placement using fine timing measurement (FTM) procedure in a wireless local area network (WLAN)

This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for access point (AP) steering or frequency band steering based on a location of a station (STA). In some aspects, an AP may determine the location of the STA based on timing information and may steer the STA based on the location. To obtain the timing information, the AP may exchange fine timing measurement (FTM) frames with the STA. The AP may determine a distance between itself and the STA based on the timing information. The AP also may obtain distance information from other APs. Using the distance between itself and the STA, as well as the distance information from other APs, the AP may determine a location of the STA and steer the STA based on its location. The AP may steer the STA to a different frequency band of the same AP or to different AP altogether.

Location aware steering using fine timing measurement (FTM) frames in a wireless local area network (WLAN)

Methods, systems, and devices for steering in mesh networks by a serving device are described. The method may include determining that a client device within a range of the serving device is eligible for steering, where the client device is outside a set of one or more trigger client devices, requesting, based on the determination, a radio resource management report from at least one trigger client device of the set of one or more trigger client devices, receiving the radio resource management report from the at least one trigger client device of the set of one or more trigger client devices, and performing a steering operation of the client device from the serving device to a target device based on the radio resource management report from the at least one trigger client device.

Trigger-client based client steering in mesh networks

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for steering a wireless device (such as a client station (STA)) in a network having multiple access points (APs). In some aspects, a processor at a first AP may monitor a traffic flow associated with the wireless device. The processor may determine that the wireless device is to be steered, based, at least in part, on the monitored traffic flow. The processor may generate a steering ranking list based on the profile of the wireless device. And the processor may selectively steer the wireless device to a different wireless association in the multi-AP network based on the steering ranking list.

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