CN104519513A

CN104519513A - WLAN (wireless local area network)-based communication method and system

Info

Publication number: CN104519513A
Application number: CN201310466066.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张永杰
Original assignee: SHENZHEN QUNYUN NETWORK Co Ltd
Current assignee: SHENZHEN QUNYUN NETWORK Co Ltd
Priority date: 2013-09-30
Filing date: 2013-09-30
Publication date: 2015-04-15

Abstract

The invention provides a WLAN (wireless local area network)-based communication method and system. The WLAN-based comprises a microcontroller MiniAC, a master wireless AP (access point), a slave wireless AP and a wireless STA (station), wherein the microcontroller MiniAC is integrated with the master wireless AP. The WLAN-based communication method includes that the microcontroller MiniAC receives equipment information and access information acquiring request of the wireless STA; the microcontroller MiniAC judges whether the corresponding wireless STA is a registered user or not according to the equipment information, and if yes, the microcontroller MiniAC feeds access information back according to the access information acquiring requests. The wireless STA is enabled to directly access to the slave AP under the condition that passwords of the slave AP are changed, and the problem about wireless network coverage of medium- and small-sized enterprises is well solved.

Description

A kind of communication means based on WLAN (wireless local area network) and system

Technical field

The present invention relates to communication technical field, particularly relate to a kind of communication means based on WLAN (wireless local area network), and, a kind of communication system based on WLAN (wireless local area network).

Background technology

Along with the high speed development of internet, local area network (LAN) (Local Area Network is called for short LAN) is also more and more universal, and not only company and enterprise, public institution establish local area network (LAN), and many Small-scale LANs set up in units of family also occur one after another.LAN (Local Area Network) is that the computer equipment of the different physical locations be distributed in several kilometer range is connected together, can the network system of communication and resource-sharing mutually under the support of network software.

Local area network (LAN) can be divided into cable LAN and WLAN (wireless local area network), when the transmission medium of construction of computer network mainly relies on copper cable or optical cable, forms cable LAN.But the restriction that cable LAN will be connected up in some occasion, particularly when will from away from node connection get up time, it is large to there is cable wiring manufacture difficulty in laying special communication circuit, expense, the problem such as many consuming time, these problems all define serious bottlenecks to the networking requirement expanded rapidly, limit user's networking.Therefore, the development of WLAN (wireless local area network) (Wireless Local Area Networks, be called for short WLAN) and application become inexorable trend.

Traditional wlan network is all set up for the access of mobile subscriber a small amount of in enterprise or family, the typical networking mode of this kind of network adopts fat AP(Access Point, WAP (wireless access point)) the distributed WLAN networking model of+cable convertor, come the wireless access of completing user, user right certification by AP, user safety strategy is implemented, and is also distributed to the management of wlan network equipment.Along with the maturation of WLAN technology and the universal of application, increasing enterprise starts large scale deployment wlan network, the number of users of access and the scale of wireless device are all being doubled and redoubled, and network maintenance staff finds when building and safeguard wlan network to adopt traditional WLAN networking and management mode to be difficult to adapt to existing wlan network scale.Therefore, AC(Access Controller, wireless controller) the wireless coverage developing direction that becomes of the centralized management framework of+thin AP.

The thin AP of AC+ controls the function of framework to equipment and repartitions, and wherein AC is responsible for the access control of wireless network, forward and statistics, the configuration monitoring of AP, roaming management, the OAMAgent of AP, security control; Thin AP is responsible for the encryption and decryption of 802.11 messages, the physical layer PHY function of 802.11, the management accepting AC, RF(Radio Frequency, radio frequency) simple functions such as the statistics of eating dishes without rice or wine.

But, the centralized management framework of the thin AP of AC+ is applied in large enterprise more, and the cost compare of AC product high (nearly unit up to ten thousand), two are greater than for AP quantity but do not reach large enterprise AP require medium-sized and small enterprises, it may not have the ability to buy the AC product of high cost like this, if and AC is applied in medium-sized and small enterprises and obviously can causes the wasting of resources, use traditional fat AP wireless network can not meet its demand again, therefore, the wireless network covering problem of medium-sized and small enterprises becomes bottleneck.

Summary of the invention

Technical problem to be solved by this invention is to provide a kind of communication means based on WLAN (wireless local area network), makes wireless site STA also can directly access sub-AP when sub-AP change of secret code, solves the problem that medium-sized and small enterprises' wireless network covers well.

Accordingly, present invention also offers a kind of communication system based on WLAN (wireless local area network), in order to ensure the implementation and application of said method.

In order to solve the problem, the invention discloses a kind of communication means based on WLAN (wireless local area network), described WLAN (wireless local area network) comprises microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described method comprises:

Described microcontroller MiniAC receives facility information and the visit information acquisition request of described wireless site STA;

According to described facility information, described microcontroller MiniAC judges that whether corresponding wireless site STA is recording user;

If so, described microcontroller MiniAC returns the visit information obtaining request for described visit information.

The invention also discloses a kind of communication means based on WLAN (wireless local area network), described WLAN (wireless local area network) comprises microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described sub-wireless access point AP has disclosed service set SSID and privately owned service set SSID, and described method comprises:

Described wireless site STA sets up first by described privately owned service set SSID with described sub-wireless access point AP and is connected;

Described wireless site STA initiates visit information to described sub-wireless access point AP and obtains request;

Described wireless site STA receives the visit information of the request that obtains for described visit information that described sub-wireless access point AP returns, described sub-wireless access point AP obtains the facility information of the wireless site STA of request for obtaining current initiation visit information, the facility information of described wireless site STA and visit information are obtained request and is sent to described female wireless access point AP, described female wireless access point AP is used for that described facility information and visit information are obtained request and is sent to described microcontroller MiniAC; Described microcontroller MiniAC is for judging that whether corresponding wireless site STA is recording user, if, then the visit information that described visit information obtains request corresponding is sent in female wireless access point AP, by described female wireless access point AP, described visit information is sent to described sub-wireless access point AP;

Described wireless site STA sends the request disconnection of disconnection and is connected with first of described sub-wireless access point AP, and sending the 3rd connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP, described 3rd connection request comprises described visit information and described disclosed service set SSID;

Described wireless site STA, after receiving the connection response that described sub-wireless access point AP returns for described 3rd connection request, sets up second with described sub-wireless access point AP and is connected.

Described sub-wireless access point AP is set up first by described privately owned service set SSID with described wireless site STA and is connected;

Described sub-wireless access point AP receives the visit information acquisition request that described wireless site sends;

Described sub-wireless access point AP obtains the facility information obtaining wireless site STA corresponding to acquisition request according to described visit information;

The facility information of described wireless site STA and visit information are obtained request and are sent to described female wireless access point AP by described sub-wireless access point AP, and described female wireless access point AP is used for that described facility information and visit information are obtained request and is sent to described microcontroller MiniAC; Described microcontroller MiniAC is for judging that whether corresponding wireless site STA is recording user, if, then the visit information that described visit information obtains request corresponding is sent in female wireless access point AP, by described female wireless access point AP, described visit information is sent to described sub-wireless access point AP;

Described sub-wireless access point AP receives the visit information that described female wireless access point AP sends, and is sent to by described visit information in corresponding wireless site STA;

Described sub-wireless access point AP receives the disconnection request of described wireless site STA, disconnects being connected with first of described wireless site STA according to described disconnection request;

Described sub-wireless access point AP receives the 3rd connection request that described wireless site STA sends, and described 3rd connection request comprises described visit information and described disclosed service set SSID;

Described sub-wireless access point AP returns the connection response for described 3rd connection request, sets up second be connected with described wireless site.

The invention also discloses a kind of communication system based on WLAN (wireless local area network), described WLAN (wireless local area network) comprises microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described method comprises:

Obtain request receiving module, obtain request for the facility information and visit information receiving described wireless site STA;

Judge module, for judging that according to described facility information whether corresponding wireless site STA is recording user;

Visit information returns module, at described wireless site STA be recording user time, return the visit information obtaining request for described visit information.

Compared with prior art, the present invention includes following advantage:

The first, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrate, female AP shares the some work of traditional AC, alleviates work load and the data delay of AC;

The second, compared with the AC equipment of units up to ten thousand easily common in the industry at present, the MiniAC of the embodiment of the present invention purchase cost and the O&M cost that also greatly reduce enterprise integrated with female AP, thus the problem efficiently solving medium-sized and small enterprises' wireless network covering;

Three, MiniAC has specific transactions interface API for being connected with described operation system, makes operation system can the direct sub-AP of management and control and manage each access client (wireless site STA), facilitates the management of operation system antithetical phrase AP and STA;

4th, MiniAC connected the facility information (unique user equipment identifier) of all STA of current network device by gathering, record the facility information of these STA, and control during STA access next time based on described facility information, STA also can directly be accessed in sub-AP when change of secret code.

Accompanying drawing explanation

Fig. 1 is the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment one based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment two based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment three based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment four based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment five based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is that the present invention is a kind of based on wireless lan network enforcement topological structure schematic diagram in the communication means of WLAN (wireless local area network).

Embodiment

For enabling above-mentioned purpose of the present invention, feature and advantage become apparent more, and below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments, the present invention is further detailed explanation.

Of the present inventionly a kind ofly can comprise microcontroller MiniAC based on the described WLAN (wireless local area network) in the communication means of WLAN (wireless local area network), female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, operation system, wireless site STA and gateway, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described microcontroller MiniAC is communicated with described sub-wireless access point AP by described female wireless access point AP, female AP shares the some work of traditional AC, traditional AC is made to reach the effect of " weight reducing ", alleviate work load and the data delay of AC, and compared with the AC equipment of units up to ten thousand easily common in the industry at present, the MiniAC of the embodiment of the present invention purchase cost and the O&M cost that also greatly reduce enterprise integrated with female AP, thus the problem efficiently solving medium-sized and small enterprises' wireless network covering.

In embodiments of the present invention, MiniAC connected the facility information (unique user equipment identifier) of all STA of current network device by gathering, record the facility information of these STA, and control (comprise identification to control, also can directly access when change of secret code) during STA access next time based on described facility information.With reference to Fig. 1, show the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment one based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention, the embodiment of the present invention is described from MiniAC side, can comprise the steps:

Step 101, described microcontroller MiniAC receives facility information and the visit information acquisition request of described wireless site STA;

As a kind of preferred exemplary of the embodiment of the present invention, described facility information can comprise the information such as MAC Address, website visiting record of STA.

Step 102, according to described facility information, described microcontroller MiniAC judges that whether corresponding wireless site STA is recording user;

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described step 102 can comprise following sub-step:

Sub-step S11, described microcontroller MiniAC searches the MAC Address of described wireless site in record sheet, and described record sheet is the facility information generation that described microcontroller MiniAC gathers the one or more wireless site STA in preset time period;

Sub-step S12, if search successfully, is then judged as that described wireless site STA is for recording user.

Specifically, STA is at every turn by after WiFi success connexon AP, and the MAC Address of this STA is recorded by sub-AP, and uploads in female AP by control channel, by female AP, the MAC Address of described STA is sent to MiniAC, the MAC Address record record of each STA can get up by MiniAC.And, the HTTP Visitor Logs of STA also can report MiniAC to preserve by sub-AP, the MAC Address of preserving in MiniAC forms record sheet with corresponding HTTP Visitor Logs, thus makes MiniAC record the information such as on-line time, access to netwoks record for STA.

In specific implementation, MiniAC can by webservice(webservice be a platform independently, loose coupling, self-contained, based on the application program of programmable web, open XML standard can be used to describe, issue, find, coordinate and configure these application programs, for developing the application program of distributed interoperability) external specific transactions interface API is provided, external service system is connected to MiniAC by Webservice, facility information in record sheet can be sent in operation system by this specific transactions interface API by MiniAC, for operation system analysis.

In addition, operation system can also be initiated miscellaneous service request according to business demand to MiniAC and manage sub-AP and STA, and described service request can comprise management STA black and white lists, amendment SSID and password, acquisition STA information etc.Such as, hotel system adopts white list mode to manage guest access network legal power, if after certain guest checks out, this hotel system white list deletes the wireless devices such as the STA(mobile phone of this client), the service request of this deletion white list arrives MiniAC by specific transactions interface API, the MAC Address of this STA is just removed by MiniAC from white list, and regenerate management information and send in sub-AP, because the MAC Address of the STA of this client is not in white list list, the handheld terminal of this client cannot from the AP system access network in hotel.

It should be noted that, described operation system is external service system, or is enterprise application system, as POS, Hospitality management system, Staffing System etc., the embodiment of the present invention to the particular type of described operation system without the need to being limited.

Step 103, if so, described microcontroller MiniAC returns the visit information obtaining request for described visit information.

In embodiments of the present invention, described visit information can be access code.When the access code of group AP is changed, MiniAC is after the visit information receiving STA obtains request, can by identify the identity of described STA be whether old user or recording user determine whether returning the password obtaining the renewal of request for this visit information and give corresponding STA, if this STA is old user, MiniAC then returns the access code of this renewal, even if make when password is revised, STA still can successfully access in sub-AP.

With reference to Fig. 2, show the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment two based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention, wherein, described sub-wireless access point AP has disclosed service set SSID and privately owned service set SSID, described disclosed SSID is the SSID that sub-AP externally announces, can be obtained by scanning, described privately owned SSID is the SSID that sub-AP does not announce, and does not obtain by scanning.The embodiment of the present invention is described from wireless site STA side, can comprise the steps:

Step 201, described wireless site STA sends the first connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP, and described first connection request comprises described disclosed service set SSID;

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described step 201 can comprise following sub-step:

Sub-step S21, described wireless site STA scans service set SSID disclosed in described sub-wireless access point AP;

Sub-step S22, when scanning described disclosed service set SSID, described wireless site STA sends the first connection request comprising described disclosed service set SSID to described sub-wireless access point AP.

Step 202, when described wireless site STA does not receive the connection response that described sub-wireless access point AP returns in preset time period, described wireless site STA sends the second connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP, and described second connection request comprises described privately owned service set SSID;

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described step 202 can comprise following sub-step:

Sub-step S31, described wireless site STA obtains the packet that described sub-wireless access point AP regularly sends, and described packet comprises privately owned privately owned service set SSID;

Sub-step S32, described wireless site STA send to described sub-wireless access point AP the second connection request comprising described privately owned service set SSID.

Step 203, described wireless site STA, after receiving the connection response that described sub-wireless access point AP returns for described second connection request, sets up first with described sub-wireless access point AP and is connected;

Step 204, described wireless site STA initiates visit information to described sub-wireless access point AP and obtains request;

Step 205, described wireless site STA receives the visit information of the request that obtains for described visit information that described sub-wireless access point AP returns;

Wherein, described sub-wireless access point AP obtains the facility information of the wireless site STA of request for obtaining current initiation visit information, the facility information of described wireless site STA and visit information are obtained request and is sent to described female wireless access point AP, described female wireless access point AP is used for that described facility information and visit information are obtained request and is sent to described microcontroller MiniAC; Described microcontroller MiniAC is for judging that whether corresponding wireless site STA is recording user, if, then the visit information that described visit information obtains request corresponding is sent in female wireless access point AP, by described female wireless access point AP, described visit information is sent to described sub-wireless access point AP;

Step 206, described wireless site STA sends the request disconnection of disconnection and is connected with first of described sub-wireless access point AP, and sending the 3rd connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP, described 3rd connection request comprises described visit information and described disclosed service set SSID;

Step 207, described wireless site STA, after receiving the connection response that described sub-wireless access point AP returns for described 3rd connection request, sets up second with described sub-wireless access point AP and is connected.

Specifically, STA be provided with coordinate the MiniAC in the embodiment of the present invention integrated with female AP use answer APP, when STA attempts the sub-AP of access, STA is first by scanning the SSID obtaining this sub-AP and announce upon actuation, when scanning this SSID, STA initiates first connection request to sub-AP, and this first connection request comprises disclosed SSID and access code; When group AP receives described first connection request, verify the access conditions that this first connection request is arranged when whether meeting configuration, if do not meet access conditions, then sub-AP does not return connection response.As a kind of example, described in do not meet access conditions situation can change for the access code of sub-AP, and the access code of the first connection request that STA sends is the password before changing.

When STA does not receive the connection response that sub-AP returns in preset time period, STA obtains the privately owned SSID of this sub-AP, its obtain manner can be: STA is by intercepting network traffics, find the packet BEACON that sub-AP regularly sends, in this packet BEACON, include the privately owned SSID of sub-AP.STA sends the second connection request including described privately owned SSID; Sub-AP receives after this comprises second connection request of privately owned SSID, can return connection response, set up first be connected (or first interface channel) after STA receives connection response with described sub-AP.

Described STA sends visit information by the first interface channel and obtains request, for obtaining the access code of renewal.After sub-AP obtains the facility information of this STA, described facility information is obtained request together with described visit information to be sent in female AP, this facility information and visit information are obtained request and are sent to MiniAC by female AP again, MiniAC searches the MAC Address that described facility information comprises in record sheet, if search successfully, then represent that this STA is old user, namely MiniAC returns and obtains visit information corresponding to request (access code as upgraded) to female AP for this visit information, described visit information is sent to sub-AP by female AP, described visit information is sent in STA by sub-AP again.

After STA receives visit information, together with described disclosed SSID, again send the 3rd connection request to sub-AP, after sub-AP verifies that described 3rd connection request meets access conditions, return connection response, set up after STA receives described connection response and link (or second interface channel) with second of described sub-AP, now, STA accesses in sub-AP smoothly.

In order to make those skilled in the art understand the present invention better, be described below by way of an object lesson:

STA installs and coordinates the MiniAC application APP that use integrated with female AP; MiniAC configures privately owned SSID to the female AP in compass of competency and each sub-AP; Time the APP of STA is applied in and cannot be connected to open SSID (as change of secret code), the privately owned SSID of APP meeting Automatic-searching, and connect upper privately owned SSID; After successful connection, STA asks for the access code of open SSID to sub-AP, and this application is turned MiniAC process by control channel by sub-AP, and MiniAC judges whether STA record is frequent customer, if frequent customer, then access code is sent to STA by sub-AP by MiniAC; After STA receives the password of open SSID, disconnect current privately owned SSID and connect, and forward open SSID to and connect.

With reference to Fig. 3, show the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment three based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention, the embodiment of the present invention is described from sub-wireless access point AP side, wherein, described sub-wireless access point AP has disclosed service set SSID and privately owned service set SSID, and described disclosed SSID is the SSID that sub-AP externally announces, and can be obtained by scanning, described privately owned SSID is the SSID that sub-AP does not announce, and does not obtain by scanning.This aspect embodiment can comprise the steps:

Step 301, described sub-wireless access point AP is set up first by described privately owned service set SSID with described wireless site STA and is connected;

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described step 301 can comprise following sub-step:

Sub-step S41, described sub-wireless access point AP receives the first connection request that described wireless site STA sends, and described first connection request comprises described disclosed service set SSID;

Sub-step S42, when verifying that described first connection request does not meet default access conditions, described sub-wireless access point AP refusal sends connection response;

Sub-step S43, described sub-wireless access point AP receives the second connection request that described wireless site STA sends, and described second connection request comprises described privately owned service set SSID;

Sub-step S44, described sub-wireless access point AP generates connection response according to described second connection request and returns described wireless site STA, sets up first be connected with described wireless site STA.

Step 302, described sub-wireless access point AP receives the visit information acquisition request that described wireless site sends;

Step 303, described sub-wireless access point AP obtains the facility information obtaining wireless site STA corresponding to acquisition request according to described visit information;

Step 304, the facility information of described wireless site STA and visit information are obtained request and are sent to described female wireless access point AP by described sub-wireless access point AP;

Wherein, described female wireless access point AP is used for described facility information and visit information acquisition request to be sent to described microcontroller MiniAC; Described microcontroller MiniAC is for judging that whether corresponding wireless site STA is recording user, if, then the visit information that described visit information obtains request corresponding is sent in female wireless access point AP, by described female wireless access point AP, described visit information is sent to described sub-wireless access point AP;

Step 305, described sub-wireless access point AP receives the visit information that described female wireless access point AP sends, and is sent to by described visit information in corresponding wireless site STA;

Step 306, described sub-wireless access point AP receives the disconnection request of described wireless site STA, disconnects being connected with first of described wireless site STA according to described disconnection request;

Step 307, described sub-wireless access point AP receives the 3rd connection request that described wireless site STA sends, and described 3rd connection request comprises described visit information and described disclosed service set SSID;

Step 308, described sub-wireless access point AP returns the connection response for described 3rd connection request, sets up second be connected with described wireless site.

In order to the communication process making those skilled in the art more understand the WLAN (wireless local area network) in the embodiment of the present invention, below the communication process of the WLAN (wireless local area network) in the embodiment of the present invention is described in detail, in WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention, described sub-AP and female AP has two kinds of connected modes, one carries out wired connection by netting twine, one is easy wireless connections, and the communication process of two kinds of connected modes is as follows respectively:

With reference to Fig. 4, show the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment four based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention, the sub-AP in the embodiment of the present invention and female AP carries out wireless connections, and the present invention can comprise the steps:

Step 401, operation system passes through specific transactions interface API to described transmission MiniAC service request;

Step 402, MiniAC generates configuration information according to described service request and is sent to female AP;

Step 403, female AP is according to described configuration information configuration inherent parameters;

Step 404, the client Client pattern of sub-AP sends to described female AP the request of discovery;

In embodiments of the present invention, sub-AP adopts AP+Client mode to run, and sub-AP is connected with female AP by Client function (or pattern).Specifically, because sub-AP and female AP carries out wireless connections, sub-AP is not because also connecting with MiniAC, therefore the ap mode of sub-AP not yet starts, the Client function of a promoter AP, and it is equivalent to a STA(Station, website, the equipment comprising wave point).Because female AP is at electrifying startup or outwards can announce a privately owned SSID(Service Set Identifier after restarting, service set), the privately owned SSID of the female AP of Client functionality scan of sub-AP, when scanning, the Client function of sub-AP sends to this female AP the request of discovery, and application connects female AP.

As a kind of preferred exemplary of the embodiment of the present invention, described discovery request can comprise the sub-AP parameter information such as the unified mark of sub-AP (representing that this equipment is sub-AP equipment), authentication command (representing that present instruction is the authentication command found female AP and accept management), sub-AP MAC Address (marking the unique identifier of this AP).

Step 405, according to described, female AP finds that request generates the client Client pattern that corresponding request response concurrent delivers to sub-AP;

Step 406, the client Client pattern of sub-AP sets up the communication port with female AP according to described request response, and described communication port comprises control channel and data channel;

In specific implementation, after female AP receives the request of discovery, certification is carried out to described discovery request, return request response after authentication success in the Client pattern of sub-AP, the Client pattern of sub-AP connects female AP according to described request response, thus sets up the communication port of sub-AP and female AP.In practice, described communication port can comprise control channel and data channel, and described control channel controls message and facility information for transmitting, and described data channel is used for data message transmission.

In addition, after female AP is to described discovery request authentication success, the parameter informations such as the MAC Address of this sub-AP are sent to MiniAC, and described parameter information is recorded by MiniAC, so that the follow-up management to this sub-AP.

Step 407, described configuration information is sent to sub-AP by described control channel by female AP;

Step 408, the ap mode of sub-AP starts, and receives described configuration information, and according to described configuration information configuration inherent parameters;

In specific implementation, described configuration information is forwarded in sub-AP by described control channel by female AP, and the ap mode of sub-AP starts, and according to configuration information configuration inherent parameters, this sub-AP is included in range of management by MiniAC.

Step 409, the ap mode of sub-AP receives one or more data message meeting the STA of access conditions according to described configuration information, and obtains MAC Address and the Visitor Logs of described STA;

Step 410, the MAC Address of described data message and described STA and Visitor Logs are sent in female AP by the ap mode of sub-AP;

Step 411, described data message is sent in described gateway by female AP, and is sent in MiniAC by the MAC Address of described STA and Visitor Logs;

Step 412, gateway processes described data message, obtains result and is sent to female AP, be sent in sub-AP by female AP, and by described sub-AP, described result is sent to corresponding STA;

Step 413, the MAC Address of described STA and Visitor Logs are sent to described operation system by MiniAC.

In embodiments of the present invention, after the ap mode startup of sub-AP, user data delivery is started.Specifically, the ap mode of sub-AP receives the connection request of one or more wireless site STA, and described in the configuration certification of the ap mode foundation inherent parameters of sub-wireless access point AP, whether one or more connection request meets access conditions; Wherein, carry the parameter configuration of the STA self such as the MAC Address of STA in the access request of STA, sub-AP can obtain the facility information of described STA from described connection request.

If the access code of sub-AP is changed, the facility information of this STA is sent to MiniAC via described female AP by sub-AP, according to self record table, MiniAC judges whether this STA is old user, if, then the access code of renewal is sent to sub-AP via female AP, be sent to STA by sub-AP, STA is connected by the access code of this renewal and disclosed SSID and sub-AP again.

Sub-AP is after the data message receiving the wireless site STA meeting described access conditions, described data message is sent in female AP by data channel, and the parameter information of the parameter information of described STA and sub-AP self is transferred in female AP by control channel.Then, described data message is sent in gateway by netting twine (HUB) by female AP, and by gateway processes, gateway processes described data message, obtains result and is sent to female AP, is sent in sub-AP by female AP by described data channel; Described result is forwarded in corresponding STA by sub-AP again, thus completes the data communication of STA and gateway.

In addition, the parameter information of the parameter information of described STA and sub-AP self is sent to MiniAC by female AP, undertaken recording and managing by MiniAC, described parameter information can be sent in operation system by MiniAC, so that described sub-AP and STA of described operation system management.

With reference to Fig. 5, show the flow chart of steps of a kind of communication means embodiment five based on WLAN (wireless local area network) of the present invention, the sub-AP in the embodiment of the present invention and female AP carries out wired connection, and the present invention can comprise the steps:

Step 501, operation system passes through specific transactions interface API to described transmission MiniAC service request;

Step 502, MiniAC generates configuration information according to described service request and is sent to female AP;

Step 503, female AP is according to described configuration information configuration inherent parameters;

Step 504, sub-AP sends to described female AP the request of discovery, by described female AP by described discovery request forward extremely described MiniAC;

In specific implementation, female AP fixes startup Broadcast Port 2999 at LAN mouth and carries out broadcast listening after starting.Sub-AP also starts a udp port 2998 upon actuation, and finds request, to find female AP to the 2999 port broadcast of the whole network.Described MiniAC is forwarded it to after female AP receives this discovery request.

Step 505, according to described, MiniAC finds that request generates corresponding request response concurrent and delivers to female AP, by described female AP, described request response is forwarded to corresponding sub-AP;

Step 506, sub-AP sets up the communication port with female AP according to described request response, and described communication port comprises control channel;

In specific implementation, after MiniAC receives the request of discovery, the loading condition according to self carries out certification with the AP list pre-set to described discovery request, returns in request response to female AP, be forwarded in sub-AP by female AP after authentication success.Sub-AP connects female AP according to described request response, thus sets up the communication port of sub-AP and female AP.In practice, described communication port can comprise control channel, and described control channel controls message, facility information etc. for transmitting.

In addition, after MiniAC is to described discovery request authentication success, the parameter informations such as the MAC Address of this sub-AP are recorded, so that the follow-up management to this sub-AP.

Step 507, described configuration information is sent to sub-AP by described control channel by female AP;

Step 508, sub-AP is according to described configuration information configuration inherent parameters;

In specific implementation, after communication port is set up, the configuration information of generation is issued to female AP by MiniAC, and described configuration information is forwarded in sub-AP by described control channel by female AP, the ap mode of sub-AP, according to configuration information configuration inherent parameters, makes MiniAC be included in range of management by this sub-AP.

Step 509, sub-AP receives one or more data message meeting the STA of access conditions according to described configuration information, and obtains MAC Address and the Visitor Logs of described STA;

Step 510, described data message is sent in gateway by sub-AP, the MAC Address of described STA and Visitor Logs is sent in female AP, is sent in MiniAC by described female AP;

Step 511, gateway processes described data message, obtains result and is sent to sub-AP, by described sub-AP, described result is sent to corresponding STA;

Step 512, the MAC Address of described STA and Visitor Logs are sent to described operation system by MiniAC.

In embodiments of the present invention, after sub-AP completes configuration, start user data delivery.Specifically, the ap mode of sub-AP receives the connection request of one or more wireless site STA, and described in the configuration certification of the ap mode foundation inherent parameters of sub-wireless access point AP, whether one or more connection request meets access conditions; Wherein, the parameter information of the STA self such as the MAC Address of STA is carried in the connection request of STA.

Sub-AP is after the data message receiving the wireless site STA meeting described access conditions, described data message is sent in gateway by netting twine (HUB), gateway processes described data message, obtains result and is sent in the WAN mouth of sub-AP by netting twine (HUB); Described result is forwarded in corresponding STA by sub-AP again, thus completes the data communication of STA and gateway.

In addition, the parameter information of the parameter information of described STA, Visitor Logs and sub-AP self can also transfer in female AP by control channel by sub-AP, MiniAC is sent it to by female AP, undertaken recording and managing by MiniAC, described parameter information can be sent in operation system by MiniAC, so that described sub-AP and STA of described operation system management.

The AC equipment (MiniAC/AP) that the communication system of the embodiment of the present invention is deployed with lightweight manages all sub-AP.As a kind of preferred exemplary of the embodiment of the present invention, topological structure schematic diagram is implemented with reference to the wireless lan network shown in figure 6, the wireless network that the present invention preferably carries out medium-sized and small enterprises in the following ways covers: the indoor in-wall of MiniAC/AP+AP-inWall(covers) covering of+AP(public domain), the AP that wherein public domain covers can select omnidirectional or directional antenna according to on-site actual situations, outward appearance is customizable (as indoor type, outdoor version, wall type, ceiling type), power supply can adopt and meet electricity or POE(Power Over Ethernet nearby, Power over Ethernet) intelligent power supply mode implements, realize the automatic roaming function of user at equipment room, AP-inWall can be directly installed on 86 boxes on wall, the convenient improvement project increasing wireless network covering for original spider lines, and AP-inWall is without the need to changing original decoration style, can in almost zero construction, perfection realizes cable network, wireless network all standing, saves time, laborsaving, attractive in appearance.Specifically, the major advantage of AP-inWall can be embodied in following several respects: 1, completely without co-channel interference: network signal stops co-channel interference phenomenon by existing netting twine system transfers completely to the AP-inWall of each room intelligence; 2, working stability: full room just only has a wireless network signal; 3, construction is simple: indoor, outdoor construction is simple, and outdoor only need adding at covering point draws in the net line, and indoor only need to change original netting twine module be AP-inWall; 4, degree is beautified high: AP-inWall outward appearance is the same with original netting twine module, and customizable panel pattern; 5, Low emissivity: maximum transmission power 80mW-100mW, green health, meets national relevant regulations, guarantees personal safety; 6, network transfer speeds is stablized: owing to have employed this special Network Transfer Media of netting twine, can ensure that networking speed is with stable completely; 7, couple SSID can be realized: two focus can be realized, office and service are separated, traditional cipher mode can be adopted simultaneously to meet the demand of client secure use network.

Communication system in the embodiment of the present invention can be applied in the medium-sized and small enterprises such as hotel, food and drink, KTV, market, the vehicles, factory's dormitory building, make medium-sized and small enterprises can enjoy any wireless network services of high-quality, the communication system of the embodiment of the present invention can comprise following beneficial effect:

1, superiority of effectiveness

The product type of MiniAC/AP integration, compared with the AC product of units up to ten thousand easily common in the industry at present, greatly reduces the purchase cost of enterprise.

2, centralized management, O&M conveniently, reduce O&M cost

Unified SSID:(such as " ×××-", no matter client, in any position of enterprise, accesses consolidated network, and image is unified, access is unified;

Namely zero configuration connects namely to provide by key technologies such as technology, the automatic discovery techniques of AP and is easily integrating seamlessly into during enterprise legacy network disposes, and carries out management maintenance, reduce the O&M cost of enterprise without the need to professional IT personnel to equipment.

3, seamless incision, high spreadability, reduce infrastructure construction

Abundant product form, indoor type, outdoor version, wall type, ceiling type, POE power supply technique etc., can WLAN be omnibearingly provided to serve, utilize POE/WDS(WirelessDistribution System, wireless distribution system) technology, without the need to enterprise, the blind spot area in legacy network infrastructure is built again, high degree reduce the construction cost of enterprise to WLAN infrastructure network.

4, commercial operation easily

Support that Web Portal and AAA of industry main flow serves, for the authentication service of WLAN user access provides good support, ensured the network security of enterprise.

The invention also discloses a kind of communication system based on WLAN (wireless local area network), described WLAN (wireless local area network) can comprise microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, the embodiment of the present invention is described from MiniAC side, and described system can comprise as lower module:

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described facility information comprises the MAC Address of described wireless site, and described judge module can comprise following submodule:

Search submodule, for searching the MAC Address of described wireless site in record sheet, described record sheet is the facility information generation that described microcontroller MiniAC gathers the one or more wireless site STA in preset time period;

Recording user determination submodule, for when the MAC Address of described wireless site is searched successfully, is judged as that described wireless site STA is for recording user.

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described WLAN (wireless local area network) also comprises operation system, and described system can also comprise:

Facility information sending module, for being sent to the facility information of described wireless site STA in described operation system by specific transactions interface API.

The invention also discloses a kind of communication system based on WLAN (wireless local area network), described WLAN (wireless local area network) comprises microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described sub-wireless access point AP has disclosed service set SSID and privately owned service set SSID, the embodiment of the present invention is described from wireless site STA side, and described system can comprise as lower module:

First connection establishment module, is connected for setting up first by described privately owned service set SSID with described sub-wireless access point AP;

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described first connection request transmission submodule comprises:

Scanning element, scans service set SSID disclosed in described sub-wireless access point AP for described wireless site STA;

First request transmitting unit, for when scanning described disclosed service set SSID, described wireless site STA sends the first connection request comprising described disclosed service set SSID to described sub-wireless access point AP.

Second connection request sends submodule, during for not receiving connection response that described sub-wireless access point AP returns in preset time period at described wireless site STA, send the second connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP, described second connection request comprises described privately owned service set SSID;

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described second connection request transmission submodule comprises:

Packet acquiring unit, for obtaining the packet that described sub-wireless access point AP regularly sends, described packet comprises privately owned privately owned service set SSID;

Second request transmitting unit, for sending to described sub-wireless access point AP the second connection request comprising described privately owned service set SSID.

First connection establishment submodule, for after receiving the connection response that described sub-wireless access point AP returns for described second connection request, sets up and is connected with first of described sub-wireless access point AP.

Obtaining request sending module, obtaining request for initiating visit information to described sub-wireless access point AP;

Visit information receiver module, for receiving the visit information of the request that obtains for described visit information that described sub-wireless access point AP returns;

Connect and disconnect module, be connected with first of described sub-wireless access point AP for sending the request disconnection of disconnection, and sending the 3rd connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP, described 3rd connection request comprises described visit information and described disclosed service set SSID;

Second connection establishment module, for after receiving the connection response that described sub-wireless access point AP returns for described 3rd connection request, sets up second with described sub-wireless access point AP and is connected.

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described first connection establishment module can comprise following submodule:

First connection request sends submodule, and for sending the first connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP, described first connection request comprises described disclosed service set SSID;

The invention also discloses a kind of communication system based on WLAN (wireless local area network), it is characterized in that, described WLAN (wireless local area network) comprises microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described sub-wireless access point AP has disclosed service set SSID and privately owned service set SSID, the embodiment of the present invention is carried out that and is illustrated from sub-wireless access point AP side, described system can comprise as lower module:

First connection establishment module, is connected for setting up first by described privately owned service set SSID with described wireless site STA;

In one preferred embodiment of the invention, described first connection establishment module can comprise:

First request receiving submodule, for receiving the first connection request that described wireless site STA sends, described first connection request comprises described disclosed service set SSID;

Access conditions judges submodule, and for when verifying that described first connection request does not meet default access conditions, refusal sends connection response;

Second connection request receives submodule, and for receiving the second connection request that described wireless site STA sends, described second connection request comprises described privately owned service set SSID;

First connection establishment submodule, for generating connection response according to described second connection request and return described wireless site STA, sets up first with described wireless site STA and is connected.

Obtain request receiving module, the visit information sent for receiving described wireless site obtains request;

Apparatus information acquiring module, for obtaining the facility information obtaining wireless site STA corresponding to acquisition request according to described visit information;

Information sending module, is sent to described female wireless access point AP for the facility information of described wireless site STA and visit information are obtained request;

Visit information receiver module, for receiving the visit information that described female wireless access point AP sends, and is sent in corresponding wireless site STA by described visit information;

Connect and disconnect module, for receiving the disconnection request of described wireless site STA, disconnecting according to described disconnection request and being connected with first of described wireless site STA;

3rd connection request receiver module, for receiving the 3rd connection request that described wireless site STA sends, described 3rd connection request comprises described visit information and described disclosed service set SSID;

Module is set up in second link, for returning the connection response for described 3rd connection request, setting up second be connected with described wireless site.

Each embodiment in this specification all adopts the mode of going forward one by one to describe, and what each embodiment stressed is the difference with other embodiments, between each embodiment identical similar part mutually see.

Those skilled in the art should understand, embodiments of the invention can be provided as method, system or computer program.Therefore, the present invention can adopt the form of complete hardware embodiment, completely software implementation or the embodiment in conjunction with software and hardware aspect.And the present invention can adopt in one or more form wherein including the upper computer program implemented of computer-usable storage medium (including but not limited to magnetic disc store, CD-ROM, optical memory etc.) of computer usable program code.

The present invention describes with reference to according to the flow chart of the method for the embodiment of the present invention, equipment (system) and computer program and/or block diagram.Should understand can by the combination of the flow process in each flow process in computer program instructions realization flow figure and/or block diagram and/or square frame and flow chart and/or block diagram and/or square frame.These computer program instructions can being provided to the processor of all-purpose computer, special-purpose computer, Embedded Processor or other programmable data processing device to generate a machine, making the instruction performed by the processor of computer or other programmable data processing device generate device for realizing the function of specifying in flow chart flow process or multiple flow process and/or block diagram square frame or multiple square frame.

These computer program instructions also can be stored in can in the computer-readable memory that works in a specific way of vectoring computer or other programmable data processing device, the instruction making to be stored in this computer-readable memory generates the manufacture comprising command device, and this command device realizes the function of specifying in flow chart flow process or multiple flow process and/or block diagram square frame or multiple square frame.

These computer program instructions also can be loaded in computer or other programmable data processing device, make on computer or other programmable devices, to perform sequence of operations step to generate computer implemented process, thus the instruction performed on computer or other programmable devices is provided for the step realizing the function of specifying in flow chart flow process or multiple flow process and/or block diagram square frame or multiple square frame.

Although describe the preferred embodiments of the present invention, those skilled in the art once obtain the basic creative concept of cicada, then can make other change and amendment to these embodiments.So claims are intended to be interpreted as comprising preferred embodiment and falling into all changes and the amendment of the scope of the invention.

Finally, also it should be noted that, in this article, the such as relational terms of first and second grades and so on is only used for an entity or operation to separate with another entity or operating space, and not necessarily requires or imply the relation that there is any this reality between these entities or operation or sequentially.And, term " comprises ", " comprising " or its any other variant are intended to contain comprising of nonexcludability, thus make to comprise the process of a series of key element, method, article or equipment and not only comprise those key elements, but also comprise other key elements clearly do not listed, or also comprise by the intrinsic key element of this process, method, article or equipment.When not more restrictions, the key element limited by statement " comprising ... ", and be not precluded within process, method, article or the equipment comprising described key element and also there is other identical element.

Above a kind of communication means based on WLAN (wireless local area network) provided by the present invention and system are described in detail, apply specific case herein to set forth principle of the present invention and execution mode, the explanation of above embodiment just understands method of the present invention and core concept thereof for helping; Meanwhile, for one of ordinary skill in the art, according to thought of the present invention, all will change in specific embodiments and applications, in sum, this description should not be construed as limitation of the present invention.

Claims

1. the communication means based on WLAN (wireless local area network), it is characterized in that, described WLAN (wireless local area network) comprises microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described method comprises:

2. method according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described facility information comprises the MAC Address of described wireless site, according to described facility information, described microcontroller MiniAC judges that whether corresponding wireless site STA is that the step of recording user comprises:

Described microcontroller MiniAC searches the MAC Address of described wireless site in record sheet, and described record sheet is the facility information generation that described microcontroller MiniAC gathers the one or more wireless site STA in preset time period;

If search successfully, be then judged as that described wireless site STA is for recording user.

3. method according to claim 1 and 2, is characterized in that, described WLAN (wireless local area network) also comprises operation system, and described method also comprises:

The facility information of described wireless site STA is sent in described operation system by specific transactions interface API by described microcontroller MiniAC.

4. the communication means based on WLAN (wireless local area network), it is characterized in that, described WLAN (wireless local area network) comprises microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described sub-wireless access point AP has disclosed service set SSID and privately owned service set SSID, and described method comprises:

5. method according to claim 4, is characterized in that, described wireless site STA sets up the first step be connected by described privately owned service set SSID with described sub-wireless access point AP and comprises:

Described wireless site STA sends the first connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP, and described first connection request comprises described disclosed service set SSID;

When described wireless site STA does not receive the connection response that described sub-wireless access point AP returns in preset time period, described wireless site STA sends the second connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP, and described second connection request comprises described privately owned service set SSID;

Described wireless site STA, after receiving the connection response that described sub-wireless access point AP returns for described second connection request, sets up and is connected with first of described sub-wireless access point AP.

6. method according to claim 5, is characterized in that, the step that described wireless site STA sends the first connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP comprises:

Described wireless site STA scans service set SSID disclosed in described sub-wireless access point AP;

When scanning described disclosed service set SSID, described wireless site STA sends the first connection request comprising described disclosed service set SSID to described sub-wireless access point AP.

7. the method according to claim 5 or 6, is characterized in that, the step that described wireless site STA sends the second connection request to described sub-wireless access point AP comprises:

Described wireless site STA obtains the packet that described sub-wireless access point AP regularly sends, and described packet comprises privately owned privately owned service set SSID;

Described wireless site STA sends to described sub-wireless access point AP the second connection request comprising described privately owned service set SSID.

8. the communication means based on WLAN (wireless local area network), it is characterized in that, described WLAN (wireless local area network) comprises microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described sub-wireless access point AP has disclosed service set SSID and privately owned service set SSID, and described method comprises:

9. method according to claim 8, is characterized in that, described sub-wireless access point AP is set up the first step be connected by described privately owned service set SSID and described wireless site STA and comprised:

Described sub-wireless access point AP receives the first connection request that described wireless site STA sends, and described first connection request comprises described disclosed service set SSID;

When verifying that described first connection request does not meet default access conditions, described sub-wireless access point AP refusal sends connection response;

Described sub-wireless access point AP receives the second connection request that described wireless site STA sends, and described second connection request comprises described privately owned service set SSID;

Described sub-wireless access point AP generates connection response according to described second connection request and returns described wireless site STA, sets up first be connected with described wireless site STA.

10. the communication system based on WLAN (wireless local area network), it is characterized in that, described WLAN (wireless local area network) comprises microcontroller MiniAC, female wireless access point AP, sub-wireless access point AP, and wireless site STA, wherein, described microcontroller MiniAC and described female wireless access point AP integrated, described method comprises: