Patent ID: 7830848

Claim:
A method comprising: measuring beacon strength of access points within range; measuring received power of the farthest mobile station; determining suitable clear channel assessment thresholds for each supported data rate; reporting the suitable clear channel assessment thresholds to a central controller; modeling the throughput at each supported data rate, wherein modeling the throughput comprises: γ i = C i m i + 1 where γ i is the throughput, i is the data rate index, C i is the supported data rate, and m i is smallest value such that: ∑ k = 1 M ⁢ P I ⁡ ( k ) = ∑ k = 1 m i ⁢ P I ⁡ ( k ) + ∑ k = m i + 1 M ⁢ P I ⁡ ( k ) , ⁢ and ⁢ ⁢ ∑ k = m i + 1 M ⁢ P I ⁡ ( k ) < CCA i where P I (k) is the beacon strength of access point k, M is the number of access points, and CCA i is the suitable clear channel assessment threshold for data rate i; and reporting the throughput for each supported data rate to the central controller.