US20020075825A1 | 2002-06-20 |
CHOUDHURI SAMPA: "Five Ways to Boost Wireless Coverage in Your Office", CISCO BLOGS, 2 November 2011 (2011-11-02), XP55635145
Claims Following is the claim for this invention: - 1. In this invention we prepare a three dimensional model for the area or floor where the Wireless Access Points have to be deployed. Also we divide the two dimensional surface of the area or floor into m * n cells of one square unit each where m*n unit square is the area of the floor (Assuming the two dimensional area is a rectangle). Then we have our Access Point Planner tool which iterates over all the cells in the surface area of the floor and calculates the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) for each cell. The Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) for each cell depends upon the placement of Access Points (Access Points are initially placed based on their coverage range and their Transmission Power) and any signal attenuation due to barriers or obstacles. For each iteration over all the cells in the surface area of the floor we find cells with weak Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) and try to change the orientation and the three dimensional position of nearby Access Points or suggest adding more Access Points to the customer till each cell in the surface area of the floor has a strong Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). Here we try to provide strong Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) for each cell in the surface area of the floor with optimal number of wireless Access Points deployed in the area. The above novel technique of providing solution to deploy optimal number of Wireless Access Points in an area with strong Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) for all points in the area is the claim for this invention. |
In this invention we prepare a three dimensional model for the area or floor where the Wireless Access Points have to be deployed. Also we divide the two dimensional surface of the area or floor into m * n cells of one square unit each where m*n unit square is the area of the floor (Assuming the two dimensional area is a rectangle). Then we have our Access Point Planner tool which iterates over all the cells in the surface area of the floor and calculates the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) for each cell. The Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) for each cell depends upon the placement of Access Points (Access Points are initially placed based on their coverage range and their Transmission Power) and any signal attenuation due to barriers or obstacles. For each iteration over all the cells in the surface area of the floor we find cells with weak Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) and try to change the
orientation and the three dimensional position of nearby Access Points or suggest adding more Access Points to the customer till each cell in the surface area of the floor has a strong Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). Here we try to provide strong Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) for each cell in the surface area of the floor with optimal number of wireless Access Points deployed in the area.
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