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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2005
David M. Theobold, Akron, OH (US);
LU Qian, Solon, OH (US);
Bretton Lee Douglas, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Hart, Milpitas, CA (US);
David M. Theobold, Akron, OH (US);
Lu Qian, Solon, OH (US);
Bretton Lee Douglas, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Hart, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and carrier medium carrying instructions to assign frequency channels and transmit powers for a plurality of access points of a wireless network. The method includes, until there are no more access points to which to assign a transmit power and frequency channel, selecting a next current access point, determining for a set of at least one transmit power for a set of at least one frequency channel a measure of the quality of the sub-network formed by the current access point and all already-assigned access points an evaluation metric indicative of the quality of the sub-network, and assigning to the current access point the transmit power and frequency channel that minimizes the measure of the quality of the sub-network.