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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2014
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Richard Lee Goodson, Huntsville, AL (US);
Ramya Raghavendra, Huntsville, AL (US);
ADTRAN, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing airtime fairness in a telecommunications network are disclosed. In one aspect a method includes determining, by an access point, respective transmission rates of multiple stations configured to wirelessly communicate with the access point; determining, by the access point and for each of the multiple stations, a weight of the station that is proportional to the respective transmission rate of the station; and transmitting, wirelessly by the access point and to each of the multiple stations, one or more packets to the station during an airtime allocation to the station, wherein the amount of one or more packets transmitted during the airtime allocation corresponds to the weight of the station and a size of queued packets for the station.