Wlan network mass monitoring system and methods and applications
Skill wood field
The present invention relates to the network quality monitoring technology, specifically be meant wlan network signal quality monitoring system and methods and applications.
Background technology
WLAN (wireless local area network) (Wireless Local Area Network) is called for short WLAN, be with the LAN (Local Area Network) of wireless channel as transmission medium, be the important supplement and the extension of wired networking mode, needing be widely used in removable data to handle or be difficult to carry out the field of physical transmission medium wiring.The wlan network of telecom operators such as China Telecom, China Mobile is than mobile communications network, have advantages such as transmission bandwidth height, network construction cost be low, but travelling performance difference and limited coverage area, and good, the wide coverage of travelling performance of mobile communications networks such as CDMA GSM, but transport tape width, construction cost height.So, telecom operators utilize WLAN and CDMA the mutual supplement with each other's advantages of mobile communications network such as GSM and the characteristics of distributing rationally, realized that the broadband network of seamless wireless cheaply of nationwide covers.
At present, the wlan network of telecom operators such as China Telecom has begun to take shape, for better commencing business, WLAN operator begun to build on a large scale WLAN wireless network and CDMA mobile communications network such as GSM.Because the networking initial stage, the access device of a lot of WLAN is not to be with monitoring, usually can only adopt traditional artificial road measuring method that wlan network performance and coverage condition thereof are monitored, this monitoring method needs the engineering staff to carry various monitoring instruments, instrument to wait until each WLAN access point collection network mass parameter and carry out the data service test on the spot, then the network quality acquisition parameter and the data service test result of gathering are added up and trend analysis, assess out the network quality of each WLAN access point.Because manual operation exists instantaneity, subjectivity, this monitoring method can't realize comprehensive, continuous network monitor, thereby also be difficult to accomplish to take precautions against network quality monitoring in possible trouble, also quite complicated to the monitoring operation of diverse network quality index such as wlan network performance and coverage condition thereof.And, be used to the instrument and meter apparatus expensive of monitoring at present, need expend great amount of manpower and material resources and fund, detect the cost height, bring very big difficulty for the WLAN construction plan and the optimization of operator.
Along with CDMA mobile communications network such as GSM build constantly perfect, with CDMA mobile communications network such as GSM combine with wlan network, monitor automatically with better realization wlan network quality, be the problem that operator is being thought deeply always.Because the major function of WLAN is to provide data communication business at a high speed for the user, and be operated in higher frequency band such as 2.4G, indexs such as the quality of network quality and network signal intensity directly have influence on data communication speed, so, the monitoring of network quality is just seemed particularly important and urgent.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to overcome the shortcoming and defect of above-mentioned prior art, a kind of wlan network mass monitoring system is provided, system of the present invention assigns wlan network quality test task by operation maintenance center to monitoring terminal, overcome the existing subjective impairment of artificial road measuring method, saved the monitoring cost greatly.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of wlan network quality monitoring method.
A further object of the present invention is to provide the application of above-mentioned wlan network quality monitoring method.
Purpose of the present invention realizes by following technical method: the wlan network mass monitoring system comprises:
Operation maintenance center (OMC), be used for assigning wlan network quality test task to monitoring terminal by mobile communications network, and the wlan network quality-monitoring result that monitoring terminal reports added up and trend analysis, assess out the network quality of the local WLAN access point of monitoring terminal;
Be positioned at the monitoring terminal of local WLAN access point overlay area, be used for the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point being monitored, by WLAN monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center then according to wlan network quality test task.
Described monitoring terminal is provided with the WLAN module that is used to monitor the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point and reports operation maintenance center.
Described monitoring terminal also is provided with the mobile communication module that is used for carrying out with operation maintenance center communication, and this mobile communication module can be CDMA module, gsm module, TD-SCDMA module, WCDMA module or CDMA2000 module etc.
Described monitoring terminal can also be connected with PC, by PC monitoring terminal is carried out this locality control.Preferably, described monitoring terminal adopts RS-232 interface to be connected with PC.
The wlan network quality monitoring method comprises the steps:
A. operation maintenance center assigns wlan network quality test task by mobile communications network to monitoring terminal;
B. monitoring terminal is monitored the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point according to wlan network quality test task, by WLAN monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center then;
C. operation maintenance center adds up and trend analysis the wlan network quality-monitoring result who is received, and assesses out the network quality of the local WLAN access point of monitoring terminal.
In the said method, when wlan network quality-monitoring result causes reporting operation maintenance center to get nowhere owing to network failure or other reason appear in the WLAN that is adopted, monitoring terminal carries out this locality storage with the wlan network quality-monitoring result who is monitored, and adopt mobile communications network to inquire about by mobile communications network notifying operation maintenance centre, monitoring terminal with the wlan network quality-monitoring result who is stored, adopts mobile communications network to report operation maintenance center according to the query statement of operation maintenance center.Preferably, monitoring terminal adopts short message mode notifying operation maintenance centre to adopt short message mode to inquire about, monitoring terminal with the wlan network quality-monitoring result who is stored, adopts short message mode or GPRS communication mode to report operation maintenance center according to the query statement of operation maintenance center.
In the said method, the wlan network quality test task that described operation maintenance center assigns to monitoring terminal can be that test assignment, fixed time test task or timing report test assignment immediately.
The implementation method of described test assignment immediately is: operation maintenance center assigns test instruction immediately by mobile communications network to monitoring terminal, after monitoring terminal is received this test instruction immediately, the monitoring of the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point being correlated with immediately according to this instruction, after monitoring finished, monitoring terminal reported operation maintenance center by WLAN with monitoring result immediately.
Described fixed time test task realizing method is: operation maintenance center assigns periodic fixed time test instruction by mobile communications network to monitoring terminal, this fixed time test instruction includes the fixed time test cycle, the fixed time test content, the fixed time test time, fixed time test number of times and fixed time test interval etc., monitoring terminal receives this fixed time test instruction and stores in the local register, monitoring terminal periodically detects the fixed time test time according to the described fixed time test cycle, when fixed time test when time is up, monitoring terminal is immediately according to fixed time test number of times and fixed time test concrete duration at interval, according to the fixed time test content wlan network quality of local WLAN access point is monitored accordingly, after each monitoring finishes, by WLAN monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center immediately.
Described timing reports the implementation method of test assignment to be: operation maintenance center assigns periodic timing by mobile communications network to monitoring terminal and reports test instruction, this fixed time test instruction includes the fixed time test content, call time regularly and regularly report at interval etc., monitoring terminal receives this fixed time test instruction and stores in the local register, monitoring terminal is according to detecting the fixed time test time, when fixed time test when time is up, monitoring terminal is monitored the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point accordingly according to the fixed time test content immediately, according to regularly reporting concrete duration at interval, monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center then by WLAN.
In the said method, the wlan network quality test task that the described operation maintenance center of step a assigns can comprise one or both in following two kinds of test assignments: make monitoring terminal monitor the network quality parameters of local WLAN access point under non-data service state, make monitoring terminal local WLAN access point be carried out the data service test of Performance Evaluation Network Based.The wlan network quality test task of being assigned corresponding to the aforesaid operations maintenance centre, the wlan network quality-monitoring result of the described monitoring terminal of step b specifically comprises in following two kinds of monitoring results one or both: the local WLAN access point of monitoring terminal is in the data service test result of the Performance Evaluation Network Based of the local WLAN access point of the network quality parameters under the non-data service state, monitoring terminal and the network of relation parameter under the data service test.
Described monitoring terminal is monitored the network quality parameters of local WLAN access point under non-data service state, can be service set (the Service Set Identifier of monitoring WLAN access point tabulation and access point, SSID), the basic service unit marks (Basic Service Set Identifier, BSSID), network quality parameters such as average received signal strength, channel number, wireless communication mode and wireless data transmission rate a kind of or multiple arbitrarily.
Described monitoring terminal carries out the data service test of Performance Evaluation Network Based to local WLAN access point, can download a kind of or multiple arbitrarily in testing of data services related such as test for ping testing, FTP upload test or FTP.
Described ping testing is used for connectedness and the connection quality of monitoring terminal analog subscriber test subscriber STATION (station) to WLAN access point and far-end link, test data comprises: the result and the time delay of the local WLAN access point of PING, the result of PING outer net and time delay.Ping testing may further comprise the steps:
(1) operation maintenance center assigns ping testing task notice monitoring terminal by mobile communications network and initiates ping testing;
(2) monitoring terminal reports the ping testing task that acknowledges receipt of by mobile communications network to operation maintenance center;
(3) monitoring terminal is initiated ping testing according to described ping testing task to the IP address of local WLAN access point, and result of the local WLAN access point of record PING (success or failure) and time delay;
(4) monitoring terminal is initiated ping testing according to described ping testing task to appointment outer net worker P address, and result of record PING outer net (success or failure) and time delay;
(5) monitoring terminal reports operation maintenance center by WLAN with the ping testing result;
(6) affirmation is replied to the reported result of monitoring terminal by operation maintenance center.
Described FTP uploads test and is meant that FTP that monitoring terminal is assigned to operation maintenance center uploads the specified file server of test assignment and uploads the file of appointment, and the data volume of record FTP upload result, file upload, upload duration, and the network performance parameter in the upload process (comprising packet loss and frame error rate).FTP uploads test and may further comprise the steps:
(1) operation maintenance center assigns FTP by mobile communications network and uploads test assignment notice monitoring terminal and initiate FTP and upload test;
(2) monitoring terminal reports to operation maintenance center by mobile communications network and acknowledges receipt of FTP and upload test assignment;
(3) monitoring terminal is uploaded the specified file server of test assignment to this FTP and is uploaded the file of appointment, and record FTP uploads test result, comprise that FTP upload result (success or failure), the FTP amount of uploading data, FTP upload duration, and the packet loss in the upload process, frame error rate;
(4) monitoring terminal is uploaded test result by WLAN with FTP and is reported operation maintenance center;
(5) affirmation is replied to the reported result of monitoring terminal by operation maintenance center, uploads duration calculation according to the FTP amount of uploading data, the FTP that are reported simultaneously and goes out the FTP upload rate.
Described FTP downloads to test and is meant that the FTP that monitoring terminal is assigned from operation maintenance center downloads the file of the specified file server download appointment of test assignment, and write down FTP and download result, file in download data volume, downloading duration, and the network performance parameter in the downloading process (comprising packet loss and frame error rate).FTP downloads test and comprises the steps:
(1) operation maintenance center assigns FTP by mobile communications network and downloads test assignment notice monitoring terminal initiation FTP download test;
(2) monitoring terminal reports to operation maintenance center by mobile communications network and acknowledges receipt of FTP download test assignment;
(3) monitoring terminal is downloaded the specified file server of test assignment to this FTP and is downloaded the file of appointment, and record FTP download test result, comprise that FTP downloads packet loss, the frame error rate in result's (success or failure), FTP data download amount and downloading duration and the downloading process;
(4) monitoring terminal is downloaded test result by WLAN with FTP and is reported operation maintenance center;
(5) affirmation is replied to the reported result of monitoring terminal by operation maintenance center, goes out the FTP downloading rate according to FTP data download amount that is reported and downloading duration calculation simultaneously.
Described operation maintenance center can also carry out remote upgrade to the monitoring terminal embedded software by WLAN, and the remote upgrade of monitoring terminal embedded software comprises the steps:
(1) operation maintenance center assigns software upgrading task notice monitoring terminal by mobile communications network and initiates software upgrading;
(2) monitoring terminal reports the software upgrading task that acknowledges receipt of by mobile communications network to operation maintenance center;
(3) monitoring terminal lands the specified server of software upgrading task by WLAN and carries out the software upgrading file and download;
(4) after monitoring terminal is finished the download of software upgrading file, carry out software upgrading, and the software after the operation upgrading;
(5) software upgrading finishes, and monitoring terminal reports the success of software remote upgrade by WLAN to operation maintenance center;
(6) affirmation is replied to the reported result of monitoring terminal by operation maintenance center.
Described monitoring terminal can also be connected with PC, by PC to the monitoring terminal embedded software is carried out local upgrade.
In the said method, described mobile communications network can be mobile communications networks such as CDMA, GSM, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA or CDMA2000.
In the said method, wlan network quality test task is assigned to monitoring terminal by described operation maintenance center, specifically adopts short message mode.
In the said method, described monitoring terminal reports operation maintenance center with wlan network quality-monitoring result, specifically adopts WIFI GPRS communication modes.
Wlan network quality monitoring method of the present invention can be applied to plan the wlan network quality-monitoring in the zone, be specially key areas such as network coverage room area in planning zone, base station, airport, hotel and arrange the monitoring terminal of some, assign wlan network quality test task by mobile communications network each monitoring terminal in planning is regional by operation maintenance center; Each monitoring terminal is monitored the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point according to wlan network quality test task, by WLAN monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center then; Operation maintenance center carries out statistical analysis to all wlan network quality-monitoring results that received, and assesses out the wlan network quality in the planning zone.
The present invention has following advantage and effect with respect to prior art:
(1) wlan network mass monitoring system of the present invention and method, assign wlan network quality test task to monitoring terminal by operation maintenance center through mobile communications network remote, the control monitoring terminal is monitored accordingly to the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point, the monitoring result that monitoring terminal is reported by operation maintenance center is added up and trend analysis again, assess out the network quality of monitoring terminal position WLAN access point, realize the automatic assessment of wlan network quality, overcome the existing subjective impairment of artificial road measuring method, saved the monitoring cost greatly;
(2) operation maintenance center can be according to the actual monitoring needs, and the Long-distance Control monitoring terminal is monitored different wlan network parameters, has satisfied the actual monitoring needs;
(3) monitoring terminal adopts WLAN to report monitoring result, and report speed is big, the real-time height;
(4) task between operation maintenance center and monitoring terminal is assigned and other command interaction adopts wide coverage, covers the strong and stable mobile communications network of signal, good reliability;
(5) when adopting WLAN to report monitoring result to get nowhere, can switch to the mobile communications network notifying operation maintenance centre of good stability by monitoring terminal, adopt mobile communications network that the monitoring result of the local storage of monitoring terminal is inquired about by operation maintenance center, realized the network backup that monitoring result reports;
(6) operation maintenance center can control monitoring terminal to the wlan network quality test immediately, fixed time test and multi-form monitoring operation such as regularly report, satisfy different actual needs;
(7) the present invention can also be by arranging the monitoring terminal of some in key areas such as network coverage room area, base station, airport, hotels, control each monitoring terminal monitoring wlan network quality-monitoring and report by operation maintenance center, by operation maintenance center the monitoring result that each monitoring terminal reports is carried out statistical analysis, can realize the omnibearing WLAN access point network of continuous uninterrupted covering quality monitoring in the planning zone, realize comprehensive assessment the wlan network quality;
(8) the inventive method can realize anywhere or anytime wlan network quality monitoring and assessment automatically, has that network monitor is continuous, covering area range wide, assessment is comprehensive, objective, accurate, a science, characteristics such as quick, can save great amount of manpower and material resources.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of wlan network mass monitoring system of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the flow chart of wlan network quality monitoring method of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the ping testing flow chart;
Fig. 4 is that FTP downloads test flow chart;
Fig. 5 is a software remote upgrade flow chart.
Embodiment
Below in conjunction with embodiment and accompanying drawing, the present invention is described in further detail, but embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto.
Figure 1 shows that wlan network mass monitoring system of the present invention, comprising:
Operation maintenance center, be used for assigning wlan network quality test task to monitoring terminal by mobile communications network, and the wlan network quality-monitoring result that monitoring terminal reports added up and trend analysis, assess out the network quality of the local WLAN access point of monitoring terminal;
Be positioned at the monitoring terminal of local WLAN access point overlay area, be used for the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point being monitored, by WLAN monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center then according to wlan network quality test task.
Described monitoring terminal can also be connected with PC, by PC monitoring terminal is carried out this locality control.Preferably, described monitoring terminal adopts RS-232 interface to be connected with PC.
Described monitoring terminal is provided with the WLAN module that is used to monitor the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point and reports operation maintenance center.
Described monitoring terminal also is provided with the mobile communication module that is used for carrying out with operation maintenance center communication, and this mobile communication module can be CDMA module, gsm module, TD-SCDMA module, WCDMA module or CDMA2000 module etc.
As shown in Figure 2, the wlan network quality monitoring method comprises the steps:
A. operation maintenance center assigns wlan network quality test task by mobile communications network to monitoring terminal;
B. monitoring terminal is monitored the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point according to wlan network quality test task, by WLAN monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center then;
C. operation maintenance center adds up and trend analysis the wlan network quality-monitoring result who is received, and assesses out the network quality of the local WLAN access point of monitoring terminal.
In the said method, when wlan network quality-monitoring result causes reporting operation maintenance center to get nowhere owing to network failure or other reason appear in the WLAN that is adopted, monitoring terminal carries out this locality storage with the wlan network quality-monitoring result who is monitored, and adopt mobile communications network to inquire about by mobile communications network notifying operation maintenance centre, monitoring terminal with the wlan network quality-monitoring result who is stored, adopts mobile communications network to report operation maintenance center according to the query statement of operation maintenance center.Preferably, monitoring terminal adopts short message mode notifying operation maintenance centre to adopt short message mode to inquire about, monitoring terminal with the wlan network quality-monitoring result who is stored, adopts short message mode or GPRS communication mode to report operation maintenance center according to the query statement of operation maintenance center.
In the said method, described mobile communications network can be mobile communications networks such as CDMA, GSM, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA or CDMA2000.
In the said method, wlan network quality test task is assigned to monitoring terminal by described operation maintenance center, specifically adopts short message mode; Described monitoring terminal reports operation maintenance center with wlan network quality-monitoring result, specifically adopts WIFI GPRS communication modes.
In the said method, the wlan network quality test task that described operation maintenance center assigns to monitoring terminal can be that test assignment, fixed time test task or timing report test assignment immediately.
The implementation method of described test assignment immediately is: operation maintenance center assigns test instruction immediately by mobile communications network (preferably adopting short message mode) to monitoring terminal, after monitoring terminal is received this test instruction immediately, the monitoring of the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point being correlated with immediately according to this instruction, after monitoring finished, monitoring terminal reported operation maintenance center by WLAN (preferably adopting WIFI GPRS communication modes) with monitoring result immediately.
Described fixed time test task realizing method is: operation maintenance center assigns periodic fixed time test instruction by mobile communications network (preferably adopting short message mode) to monitoring terminal, this fixed time test instruction includes the fixed time test cycle, the fixed time test content, the fixed time test time, fixed time test number of times and fixed time test interval etc., monitoring terminal receives this fixed time test instruction and stores in the local register and (is preferably non volatile register), monitoring terminal periodically detects the fixed time test time according to the described fixed time test cycle, when fixed time test when time is up, monitoring terminal is immediately according to fixed time test number of times and fixed time test concrete duration at interval, according to the fixed time test content wlan network quality of local WLAN access point is monitored accordingly, after each monitoring finishes, by WLAN (preferably adopting WIFI GPRS communication modes) monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center immediately.
Described timing reports the implementation method of test assignment to be: operation maintenance center assigns periodic timing by mobile communications network (preferably adopting short message mode) to monitoring terminal and reports test instruction, this fixed time test instruction includes the fixed time test content, call time regularly and regularly report at interval etc., monitoring terminal receives this fixed time test instruction and stores in the local register and (is preferably non volatile register), monitoring terminal is according to detecting the fixed time test time, when fixed time test when time is up, monitoring terminal is monitored the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point accordingly according to the fixed time test content immediately, according to regularly reporting concrete duration at interval, monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center then by WLAN (preferably adopting WIFI GPRS communication modes).
In the said method, the wlan network quality test task that the described operation maintenance center of step a assigns can comprise one or both in following two kinds of test assignments: make monitoring terminal monitor the network quality parameters of local WLAN access point under non-data service state, make monitoring terminal local WLAN access point be carried out the data service test of Performance Evaluation Network Based.The wlan network quality test task of being assigned corresponding to the aforesaid operations maintenance centre, the wlan network quality-monitoring result of the described monitoring terminal of step b specifically comprises in following two kinds of monitoring results one or both: the local WLAN access point of monitoring terminal is in the data service test result of the Performance Evaluation Network Based of the local WLAN access point of the network quality parameters under the non-data service state, monitoring terminal and the network of relation parameter under the data service test.
Described monitoring terminal is monitored the network quality parameters of local WLAN access point under non-data service state, can be service set (the Service Set Identifier of monitoring WLAN access point tabulation and access point, SSID), the basic service unit marks (Basic Service Set Identifier, BSSID), network quality parameters such as average received signal strength, channel number, wireless communication mode and wireless data transmission rate a kind of or multiple arbitrarily.
Described monitoring terminal carries out the data service test of Performance Evaluation Network Based to local WLAN access point, can download a kind of or multiple arbitrarily in testing of data services related such as test for ping testing, FTP upload test or FTP.
Assign wlan network quality test task with described operation maintenance center to monitoring terminal below, specifically adopt short message mode; Described monitoring terminal reports operation maintenance center with wlan network quality-monitoring result, the concrete WIFI GPRS communication modes that adopts specifies ping testing, FTP and uploads test, FTP and download and test and the concrete technical scheme of monitoring terminal remote upgrade.
Described ping testing is used for connectedness and the connection quality of monitoring terminal analog subscriber test subscriber STATION (station) to WLAN access point and far-end link, test data comprises: the result and the time delay of the local WLAN access point of PING, the result of PING outer net and time delay.As shown in Figure 3, ping testing may further comprise the steps:
(1) operation maintenance center assigns ping testing task notice monitoring terminal with short message mode and initiates ping testing;
(2) monitoring terminal reports the note that acknowledges receipt of the ping testing task to operation maintenance center;
(3) monitoring terminal is initiated ping testing according to described ping testing task to the IP address of local WLAN access point, and result of the local WLAN access point of record PING (success or failure) and time delay;
(4) monitoring terminal is initiated ping testing according to described ping testing task to appointment outer net IP address, and result of record PING outer net (success or failure) and time delay;
(5) monitoring terminal reports operation maintenance center by WIFI GPRS communication modes with the ping testing result;
(6) affirmation is replied to the reported result of monitoring terminal by operation maintenance center.
In the above-mentioned ping testing, if the ping testing task that operation maintenance center assigns is the fixed time test task, then monitoring terminal carries out repeatedly ping testing according to the fixed time test number of times that the fixed time test task is comprised, both repeatedly the operation of repeating step (3) and (4) obtained repeatedly ping testing result, proceeded the operation of step (5) and (6) then.
Described FTP uploads test and is meant that FTP that monitoring terminal is assigned to operation maintenance center uploads the specified file server of test assignment and uploads the file of appointment, and the data volume of record FTP upload result, file upload, upload duration, and the network performance parameter in the upload process (comprising packet loss and frame error rate).FTP uploads test and may further comprise the steps:
(1) operation maintenance center assigns FTP with short message mode and uploads test assignment notice monitoring terminal and initiate FTP and upload test;
(2) monitoring terminal reports to operation maintenance center and acknowledges receipt of the note that FTP uploads test assignment;
(3) monitoring terminal is uploaded the specified file server of test assignment to this FTP and is uploaded the file of appointment, and record FTP uploads test result, comprise that FTP upload result (success or failure), the FTP amount of uploading data, FTP upload duration, and the packet loss in the upload process, frame error rate;
(4) monitoring terminal is uploaded test result by WIFI GPRS communication modes with FTP and is reported operation maintenance center;
(5) affirmation is replied to the reported result of monitoring terminal by operation maintenance center, uploads duration calculation according to the FTP amount of uploading data, the FTP that are reported simultaneously and goes out the FTP upload rate.
Above-mentioned FTP uploads in the test, if uploading test, the FTP that operation maintenance center assigns is the fixed time test task, then the fixed time test number of times that comprised according to the fixed time test task of monitoring terminal carries out repeatedly FTP and uploads test, both repeatedly the operation of repeating step (3) obtained repeatedly that FTP uploads test result, proceeded the operation of step (4) and (5) then.
Described FTP downloads to test and is meant that the FTP that monitoring terminal is assigned from operation maintenance center downloads the file of the specified file server download appointment of test assignment, and write down FTP and download result, file in download data volume, downloading duration, and the network performance parameter in the downloading process (comprising packet loss and frame error rate).As shown in Figure 4, FTP downloads to test and comprises the steps:
(1) operation maintenance center assigns FTP with short message mode and downloads test assignment notice monitoring terminal initiation FTP download test;
(2) monitoring terminal reports to operation maintenance center and acknowledges receipt of the note that FTP downloads test assignment;
(3) monitoring terminal is downloaded the specified file server of test assignment to this FTP and is downloaded the file of appointment, and record FTP download test result, comprise that FTP downloads packet loss, the frame error rate in result's (success or failure), FTP data download amount and downloading duration and the downloading process;
(4) monitoring terminal is downloaded test result by WIFI GPRS communication modes with FTP and is reported operation maintenance center;
(5) affirmation is replied to the reported result of monitoring terminal by operation maintenance center, goes out the FTP downloading rate according to FTP data download amount that is reported and downloading duration calculation simultaneously.
Above-mentioned FTP downloads in the test, if downloading test, the FTP that operation maintenance center assigns is the fixed time test task, then the fixed time test number of times that comprised according to the fixed time test task of monitoring terminal carries out repeatedly FTP and downloads test, both repeatedly the operation of repeating step (3) obtained repeatedly FTP and downloaded test result, proceeded the operation of step (4) and (5) then.
Described operation maintenance center can also be by carrying out remote upgrade through WLAN to the monitoring terminal embedded software, and as shown in Figure 5, the remote upgrade of monitoring terminal embedded software comprises the steps:
(1) operation maintenance center assigns software upgrading task notice monitoring terminal with short message mode and initiates software upgrading;
(2) monitoring terminal reports the note that acknowledges receipt of the software upgrading task to operation maintenance center;
(3) monitoring terminal lands the specified server of software upgrading task by WIFI GPRS communication modes and carries out the software upgrading file and download;
(4) after monitoring terminal is finished the download of software upgrading file, carry out software upgrading, and the software after the operation upgrading;
(5) software upgrading finishes, and monitoring terminal reports the success of software remote upgrade by WIFI GPRS communication modes to operation maintenance center;
(6) affirmation is replied to the reported result of monitoring terminal by operation maintenance center.
Described monitoring terminal can also be connected with PC, by PC to the monitoring terminal embedded software is carried out local upgrade.
Wlan network quality monitoring method of the present invention can be applied to plan the wlan network quality-monitoring in the zone, be specially key areas such as network coverage room area in planning zone, base station, airport, hotel and arrange the monitoring terminal of some, assign wlan network quality test task by mobile communications network each monitoring terminal in planning is regional by operation maintenance center; Each monitoring terminal is monitored the wlan network quality of local WLAN access point according to wlan network quality test task, by WLAN monitoring result is reported operation maintenance center then; Operation maintenance center carries out statistical analysis to all wlan network quality-monitoring results that received, and assesses out the wlan network quality in the planning zone.
The foregoing description is a preferred implementation of the present invention; but embodiments of the present invention are not limited by the examples; other any do not deviate from change, the modification done under spirit of the present invention and the principle, substitutes, combination, simplify; all should be the substitute mode of equivalence, be included within protection scope of the present invention.