Patent ID: 11902246
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. One or more non-transitory computer readable media encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computing device that is in communication with one or more wireless access point devices that serve one or more wireless client devices in a wireless network, are operable to cause the computing device to perform operations including:
determining an impact of Media Access Control (MAC) address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices on operational resources of one or more networking devices or networking processes in a network infrastructure associated with the wireless network, wherein determining the impact comprises assigning each of the one or more wireless client devices to a classification based on a MAC address rotation behavior type of the one or more wireless client devices to maintain a count of wireless client devices assigned to a respective classification among a plurality of classifications, wherein each classification has a rotation timer or window, and evaluating counts of wireless client devices for each of the plurality of classifications; and
scheduling MAC address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices according to the impact on operational resources of the one or more networking devices or networking processes in the network infrastructure.