Patent ID: 9585124
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: obtaining, at a wireless controller, receive signal strength information of uplink transmissions sent from a first client to first and second neighboring access points in a wireless network, and receive signal strength information of neighbor messages transmitted between the first and second neighboring access points; determining, at the wireless controller, an estimated path loss between the first and second neighboring access points using the receive signal strength information obtained from the uplink transmissions sent from the first client to the first and second neighboring access points; determining, at the wireless controller, a measured path loss between the neighboring access points using the receive signal strength information obtained from the neighbor messages transmitted between the first and second neighboring access points; determining, at the wireless controller, an effective path loss between the first and second neighboring access points based at least on the estimated path loss and the measured path loss; and performing, at the wireless controller, radio resource management operations in the wireless network using the effective path loss.