Access point (AP) network element positioning method and apparatus

Abstract

The invention discloses an access point (AP) network element positioning method and an AP (access point) network element positioning apparatus. M access points (AP) are deployed in a physical area, wherein the M access points (AP) include N first reference access points (AP) and L access points (AP) to be positioned, wherein the physical locations of the first reference access points (AP) and the values of first distances between any two first reference access points (AP) are determined. The method includes the following steps that: first electromagnetic wave signals received by a first access point (AP) to be positioned in the L access points (AP) to be positioned are obtained; the values of second distances between the first access point (AP) to be positioned and each first reference access point (AP) are determined according to the obtained first electromagnetic wave signals; and the physical location of the first access point (AP) to be positioned is determined according to the values of the first distances, the values of the second distances and the physical locations of each of the first reference access points (AP). According to the method and apparatus provided by the invention, the physical location of each deployed access point (AP) network element in network management topology is determined through automatic calculation of a system, and therefore, AP management can be facilitated for a network administrator.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of data processing, in particular to a positioning method and device for a wireless node AP network element. Background technique [0002] As a wireless technology, WLAN is adopted by more and more business users. Using wireless technology to deploy internal networks can reduce the problems encountered in a large number of wired deployments. It is a fast, easy-to-use network networking technology. [0003] In the current network deployment of enterprises or industrial parks, hundreds or even thousands of wireless access points (WLAN APs) usually need to be deployed. In order to facilitate the management of APs in the network management system, after deploying network nodes at specific For the deployment position of the AP in the actual environment, the AP icon (network element) corresponding to the AP is correspondingly marked in the building drawing of the actual environment, so that the actual physical equipment ca...

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[0006] The present invention provides a method and device for locating a wireless node AP network element. The method and device provided by the present invention solve the problems of using manual operation to locate a wireless node AP network element in the prior art, which has a huge workload and is prone to errors.

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