A method for uniformly configuring wireless access points and an access controller

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for uniformly configuring wireless access points (APs), comprising: an access controller (AC) storing an AP grouping configuration list; and after determining the receipt of a joining request sent by an AP, the AC searching for a matching AP grouping configuration list according to the joining request of the AP, obtaining a business configuration parameter from the matching AP grouping configuration list, and sending the business configuration parameter to the AP. Also disclosed at the same time is an AC. The present invention can improve the working efficiency of an AC in a thin AP architecture, and reduce bandwidth occupied in the process where the AC sends a configuration parameter.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a wireless access technology in wireless communication, in particular to a method for uniformly configuring a wireless access point (AP, AccessPoint) and an access controller (AC, AccessController). Background technique [0002] At present, in some large public places, such as airports, exhibition / conference centers, universities and stadiums, and government and enterprise customers, wireless local area networks (WLAN, Wireless Local Area Networks) generally adopt a thin AP architecture based on APs and ACs. In the thin AP architecture, the AC performs unified control, configuration, debugging and management on all APs. Wherein, the method for the AC to deliver the configuration parameters to the AP is as follows: the AC configures the radio frequency parameters and other service-related parameters required by any AP one by one, and then delivers each parameter to the AP frame by frame in sequence. [0003] However, th...

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[0003] However, the above-mentioned method for the AC to issue configuration parameters to the AP, because the AC needs to occupy the communication frame for parameter delivery multiple times when configuring the AP, occupies part of the communication bandwidth; in addition, due to actual use, most thin AP architectures The APs may use the same configuration, or use slightly different configurations. In this way, when the AC actually configures, a lot of time is wasted for repeated operations, which reduces work efficiency.

[0004] It can be seen that, in the current existing technology, the AC delivers configuration parameters to all APs managed by the AC in the thin AP architecture. Due to a large number of repeated operations, the work efficiency of the AC is reduced and part of the communication bandwidth is occupied.

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