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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2017
Aruba Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Min Cao, Milpitas, CA (US);
Partha Narasimhan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for adaptive management of wireless clients based on clients' radio behaviors and capabilities. Specifically, a disclosed network device can dynamically select a location tracking mechanism based on a probing characteristic of a client device. The disclosed network device can also dynamically selects a communication mechanism based on a power saving characteristics of a client device. Moreover, the disclosed network device can determine whether to select a new access point for a client device based on roaming characteristics of the client device. The adaptive management of client devices can be performed on a group of client devices with similar radio behaviors and/or capabilities on a per-radio rather than per-BSSID (basic service set identifier) basis.