Patent ID: 9591588
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a hardware processor of a computing device for determining access point power output, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause the hardware processor to: identify, for a particular access point, a plurality of neighboring access points; identify, for each neighboring access point, a pathloss value that indicates a difference in a transmit power of the neighboring access point and a received signal strength observed by the particular access point; identify at least one adjacent access point from the neighboring access points, each adjacent access point having a pathloss value that is less than a pathloss threshold; generate a representative pathloss using the pathloss values of each adjacent access point; determine a target power level for the representative pathloss; and provide at least one of the neighboring access points with instructions that cause the at least one neighboring access point to adjust a power output level of the at least one neighboring access point.