Patent ID: 7916705

Claim:
A method comprising: managing managed access points (APs) of a wireless network, the managing using a central management entity and including carrying out one or both of power control and frequency selection to configure one or more configuration parameters of the managed access point; maintaining an AP database that includes information about managed APs and friendly APs of the wireless network, including for each managed AP in the AP database, the service set identifier of the managed AP and one or more of the configuration parameters; receiving information from at least one of the managed APs including information on any beacon or probe response received by the managed AP that was sent by any potential rogue AP, including the MAC address of the potential rogue AP and one or more configuration parameters; and for each potential rogue AP that sent a beacon or probe response on which information is received, ascertaining if the potential rogue AP is a managed AP, including, ascertaining if there is a match for the service set identifier of the potential rogue AP in the AP database, and further ascertaining if there is a match for one or more configuration parameters of the potential rogue AP in the AP database, such that at least a plurality of parameters are matched in the AP database to ascertain whether a potential rogue AP is a managed AP.