Patent ID: 7827270
Filing Date: 2010-11-02
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: determining mobility service engine slaves belonging to a cluster; determining all devices managed by the cluster, the devices managed by the cluster comprising a first mobility service engine cluster slave, a second mobility service engine cluster slave, a first controller in communication with the first mobility service engine cluster slave, and a second controller in communication with the first mobility service engine cluster slave and the second mobility service engine cluster slave; acquiring data representative of a physical layout, the data representative of the physical layout comprising data representative of an area serviced by each of the devices managed by the cluster; receiving radio frequency neighbor environment data from controllers associated with the cluster; forming a plurality of network service segments for the cluster based on the radio frequency environment, wherein a network service segment is a cohesive grouping that provides at least one mobility service across a set of related infrastructure nodes; and assigning each of the plurality of network service segments to not more than one of the mobility service engine slaves; wherein assigning further comprises assigning a selected one network service segment selected from the plurality network service segment to a cluster slave selected from the group consisting of the first mobility service engine cluster slave and the second mobility service engine cluster slave to service; wherein assigning further comprises communicating a routing path to controllers having infrastructure nodes belonging to the selected one network service segment.