Patent ID: 8014804
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of associating a station to one of a plurality of access points in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the method comprising the steps of: (a) measuring a downlink signal quality of a message received in a signal from each of one or more access points; (b) transmitting a test link request to each of the one or more access points; (c) receiving a corresponding test link response for each of one or more of the test link requests, the corresponding test link response including an uplink signal quality to the corresponding access point; (d) identifying at least one access point having a downlink signal quality above a predetermined threshold; and (e) associating to the access point, from among the at least one access point identified in step (d), having the highest uplink signal quality.