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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
May. 04, 2010
M S Badari Narayana, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kumara Das Karunakaran, San Jose, CA (US);
Seemant Choudary, Fremont, CA (US);
Veniamin Bourakov, Santa Clara, CA (US);
M S Badari Narayana, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kumara Das Karunakaran, San Jose, CA (US);
Seemant Choudary, Fremont, CA (US);
Veniamin Bourakov, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing location based load balancing of wireless access points and wireless switches is presented. A wireless controller (WC) receives an associate message from an Access Point (AP)/wireless switch (WS) at the WC. The WC then determines whether a preferred WC for the AP/WS is available. When the preferred WC is not available, then the WC determines if an alternate WC for the AP is available. When the alternate WC is not available, an administrator configured policy may be used that maps the AP to a specific WC. When the policy does exist then the AP is coupled to the WC according to the policy and when the policy does not exist then the WC parses the AP/WS location information for the AP/WS to determine an available geographically closest WC for the AP/WS and sends a message to the AP/WS relating to the available WC. The WC will also assign an available geographically closest WS to AP.