Patent ID: 8094582

Claim:
A method of determining a location for a new capacity point in a wireless network, the method comprising: determining a wireless contention of the network for each of a plurality of capacity points in the network, wherein each capacity point is a network device interfacing the network with a second network; calculating a capacity for each of the plurality of capacity points in the network as a function of the wireless contention at the capacity point; and determining a location in the network for placing the new capacity point based on the capacities, wherein determining a wireless contention of the network comprises calculating v g = ∑ j = 1 m ⁢ ⁢ ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ ⁢ R ⁡ [ i , j ] × I ⁡ [ g , j ] , wherein vg is the wireless contention, m is a total number of links in the network, n is a total number of nodes in the network, R and I are two-dimensional matrices, i is a node of the n total number of nodes, j is a link of the m total number of links in the network, and g is a capacity point of the plurality of capacity points.