Methods and systems for network channel capacity planning,...

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2008-03-20

2010-10-19

Duong, Frank (Department: 2474)

Multiplex communications

Network configuration determination

C370S338000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07817581

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for network channel capacity planning, measuring, and analyzing of WLAN networks are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes importing network and node configuration of an existing physical wireless local area network (WLAN) deployment from WLAN surveying system that captures and analyzes WLAN traffic in order to define a configuration of the existing physical WLAN, simulating a virtual WLAN using the imported network and node configuration as parameters of the simulated WLAN and applying various other configurations not present in the imported network and node configuration as parameters of the simulated WLAN, and analyzing the simulated WLAN to produce throughput statistics of network and nodes of the simulated WLAN.

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