Patent ID: 9338678
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A system for enabling collection of end-to-end performance information for a Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points, CAPWAP, bi-directional control channel established between first and second CAPWAP nodes, the system comprising: a first CAPWAP channel endpoint in the first CAPWAP node, the first CAPWAP channel endpoint configured to provide a first plurality of sequence numbers in request messages on the CAPWAP bi-directional control channel, the first CAPWAP channel endpoint being further configured to provide a request discriminator in a request message to selectively identify particular control messages to be performance monitored; a second CAPWAP channel endpoint in the second CAPWAP node, the second CAPWAP channel endpoint configured to send a second plurality of sequence numbers in response messages on the CAPWAP bi-directional control channel in response to the request messages; the first and second plurality of sequence numbers enabling determination of a first set of one-way performance data for each of two directions of the CAPWAP bi-directional control channel.