WO2001078326A3 - Method for configuring and assigning channels for a wireless network - Google Patents

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WO2001078326A3
WO2001078326A3 PCT/US2001/011401 US0111401W WO0178326A3 WO 2001078326 A3 WO2001078326 A3 WO 2001078326A3 US 0111401 W US0111401 W US 0111401W WO 0178326 A3 WO0178326 A3 WO 0178326A3
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Alexander H Hills
Jon P Schlegel
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W16/00—Network planning, e.g. coverage or traffic planning tools; Network deployment, e.g. resource partitioning or cells structures
    • H04W16/18—Network planning tools
    • H04W16/20—Network planning tools for indoor coverage or short range network deployment
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W16/00—Network planning, e.g. coverage or traffic planning tools; Network deployment, e.g. resource partitioning or cells structures
    • H04W16/18—Network planning tools
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W24/00—Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W28/00—Network traffic management; Network resource management
    • H04W28/16—Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]

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A method for configuring access points (16) of a network providing wireless communications coverage for an environment, including determining a coverage radius of an access point at certain locations within the environment (22), determining an average coverage radius of the access points for the environment based on the determined coverage radii (24), positioning the access points at locations within the indoor environment to provide continuous radio coverage for the environment based on the average coverage radii, assigning a weight indicative of overlapping coverage for each pair of access points having overlapping coverage, and assigning a channel to each of the access points based on certain sums of the weights to minimize coverage overlap between access points operating at the same channel.
PCT/US2001/011401 2000-04-10 2001-04-06 Method for configuring and assigning channels for a wireless network WO2001078326A2 (en)

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