Patent ID: 9730151
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a mobile station (STA) for selecting an access point (AP) with which to associate, the method comprising: broadcasting a probe request that includes a request for one or more non-associated APs to initiate a channel sounding operation with the STA; receiving, from each of a number of the non-associated APs, a null data packet (NDP), wherein the probe request includes a schedule indicating an order in which the number of non-associated APs are to send the NDPs to the STA; determining, for each of the number of non-associated APs, a goodput value based, at least in part, on a corresponding one of the received NDPs; and selecting one of the number of non-associated APs for an association operation with the STA based, at least in part, on the determined goodput values of the number of non-associated APs.