Patent ID: 8139543

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a monitor module configured in a data forwarding plane of a network switch, said monitor module configured to calculate transmission throughput of an access port and detect a coverage hole condition affecting a mobile device associated with the access port based on the transmission throughput; a regulatory module configured in a control plane of said network switch, said regulatory module configured to increase a transmission power of said access port in response to detection of said coverage hole condition; wherein said monitor module calculates said transmission throughput by multiplying a number of data bytes transmitted between each mobile device and said access port by a data rate for each of said number of data bytes transmitted, and summing each of said multiplied numbers; and wherein said monitor module multiplies a target throughput associated with said access port by a sum of a total number of data bytes transmitted between said access port and the mobile devices, compares said transmission throughput to said multiplied amount, and detects said coverage hole condition based on said comparison.