Patent ID: 7508801
Filing Date: 2009-03-24
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a wireless network system comprising at least one access element for communication with at least one remote client element, and at least one central control element for controlling and managing wireless connections between access elements and remote client elements, a method facilitating the initialization and configuration of an access element, comprising transmitting from an access element one or more discovery messages to discover one or more central control elements, wherein the one or more central control elements each provide a central control element identifier and a load parameter identifying the number of access elements associated with the corresponding central control element; selecting, at the access element, a central control element from the discovered central control elements, wherein the selected central control element reporting the lowest load parameter; exchanging validating information between the access element and the selected central control element, wherein exchanging validating information comprises exchanging configuration information between the access element and the validated central control element.