Patent ID: 9532304
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for post-authenticating at least one user equipment, adapted to a controller connected to at least one gateway, comprising: the at least one user equipment is connected to at least an access point, determining whether an external channel quality of the at least one gateway is higher than a threshold; incompletely authenticating the at least one user equipment, and controlling the at least one access point to provide the at least one user equipment with a limited network access ability, wherein the external channel quality is not higher than the threshold; estimating a future channel capacity of the at least one gateway; calculating a priority weight of each user equipment of the at least one user equipment according to the user equipment's an authentication waiting time, a number of authentication failures and at least one hop count between the at least one access point and the at least one gateway; and selecting at least one candidate user equipment from the at least one user equipment based on the future channel capacity and the priority weight of the at least one candidate user equipment, and arranging a corresponding authentication mechanism for completely authenticating the at least one candidate user equipment at a time corresponding to the future channel capacity.