Disclosure of Invention
The present invention is directed to solve the problems in the prior art, and provides a wireless access method based on user priority, which can effectively embody that different wireless access services are provided for users with different priorities in some locations.
A wireless access method based on user priority comprises the following steps:
step 1, dividing a plurality of antennas of a wireless access point into a high-priority antenna and a low-priority antenna;
step 2, dividing a plurality of wireless terminal stations into high-priority users and low-priority users;
and 3, the wireless access point distributes antennas with corresponding priorities according to the priorities of the wireless terminal stations requesting access.
Preferably, the method for prioritizing the antennas in step 1 specifically includes:
in the starting state, the antennas with the designated number are divided into high-priority antennas and low-priority antennas according to the setting;
in the working state, if the number of high-priority users accessed in real time is greater than a set maximum user number threshold value, one low-priority antenna is converted into a high-priority antenna; and if the number of the high-priority users accessed in real time is lower than the set minimum user number threshold value, converting one high-priority antenna into a low-priority antenna.
Preferably, the method for prioritizing the wireless terminal stations in step 2 specifically includes: according to the consumption information of the user, if the total consumption amount of the user is larger than or equal to a set consumption amount threshold value, marking the user as a high-priority user; and if the total consumption amount of the users is smaller than the set consumption amount threshold value, marking the users of the type as low-priority users.
Preferably, the number of high priority antennas is equal to or greater than the number of low priority antennas in step 1.
Preferably, the step 3 specifically comprises: the wireless access point determines the priority of the wireless access point through the hardware address of the accessed wireless terminal station and allocates the antenna with the corresponding priority.
The present invention also provides a wireless access point, comprising:
the grading module is used for setting the priority of each antenna;
the recording module is used for recording the access information and the priority of the wireless terminal station;
the authentication module determines the priority of the wireless terminal station according to the hardware address of the accessed wireless terminal station;
and the distribution module is used for distributing the antennas with corresponding priorities according to the priorities of the accessed wireless terminal sites.
Preferably, the system further comprises a conversion module for setting conversion conditions and converting the antennas into different priorities if the set conditions are met.
Preferably, the number of high priority antennas set by the ranking module is equal to or greater than the number of low priority antennas.
The invention also provides a wireless access system based on the user priority, which comprises a plurality of wireless access points, a plurality of wireless terminal stations and a wireless access cloud server; the wireless access points collect access information and priorities of different wireless terminal stations and share the access information and the priorities through the wireless access cloud server.
Preferably, the wireless access cloud server includes:
the storage module is used for storing a plurality of user lists and user priorities of the wireless access points;
and the communication module is used for carrying out information interaction with the recording module of the wireless access point, collecting the user information of each wireless access point and synchronizing the collected information to other wireless access points.
The invention has the advantages that: by carrying out priority classification on the antennas of the wireless access point and setting the number of the antennas with different priorities, a high-priority user can enjoy more access resources so as to meet the requirements of providing different levels of wireless access services for clients with different priorities in some places.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
Example 1
A wireless access method based on user priority comprises the following steps:
step 1, dividing a plurality of antennas of a wireless access point into a high-priority antenna and a low-priority antenna;
step 2, dividing a plurality of wireless terminal stations into high-priority users and low-priority users;
and 3, the wireless access point distributes antennas with corresponding priorities according to the priorities of the wireless terminal stations requesting access.
It should be noted that, the above steps 1 and 2 are only used for differentiating the antenna of the wireless access point and the priority division of the wireless terminal station, and the order of the steps can be changed freely without affecting the implementation effect of the method.
The method enables the user priority to be reflected on the wireless access to a certain extent. It is assumed here that all wireless terminal stations are 1x 1. While the wireless access point is 3x3, the three antennas of the wireless access point we name A, B and C, respectively, where a is the low priority antenna and B and C are the high priority antennas. When a wireless terminal station with low priority requests for association, the wireless terminal station sends an association request frame to the wireless access point, the wireless access point can determine the priority of the wireless terminal station through information such as the address of the wireless terminal station, and when the wireless terminal station belongs to the low priority, a plurality of users are adopted to allocate antennas to the wireless terminal station, and only A is allocated to the wireless terminal station; when a wireless terminal station belongs to high priority, and an antenna is allocated to the wireless terminal station by adopting a multi-user multi-input multi-output technology, a B or C is allocated to the wireless terminal station. That is, the low priority users share one antenna, i.e., all low priority users share 1/3 spatial resources. The high priority users share two antennas, i.e., all high priority users share 2/3 spatial resources. Generally, the low-priority users are far more than the high-priority users, so that the high-priority users occupy more resources with fewer numbers, and the advantage of the high-priority users in space occupation is reflected.
Of course, the above is only a specific example of the embodiment, wherein the specification of the wireless access point is determined by the specific implementation, and the number of the high priority antennas and the number of the low priority antennas can be set according to different requirements of the location. The invention aims to reflect the difference of different priority users in wireless access service, or mainly to reflect the service advantages of high priority users. This has a pushing role in the marketing in many places, specifically like the railway station, often can provide free wireless network in the railway station, has many merchants in the railway station simultaneously, if distinguish user's priority according to the user in the station different merchant's total amount of consumption to make the user of high priority enjoy better wireless service, then can promote the consumption of user in the railway station to a certain extent, also can improve the experience after the user consumes simultaneously.
Example 2
The method for prioritizing the antennas in embodiment 1 specifically includes:
in the starting state, the antennas with the designated number are divided into high-priority antennas and low-priority antennas according to the setting;
in the working state, if the number of high-priority users accessed in real time is greater than a set maximum user number threshold value, one low-priority antenna is converted into a high-priority antenna; and if the number of the high-priority users accessed in real time is lower than the set minimum user number threshold value, converting one high-priority antenna into a low-priority antenna.
The antenna priority classification method in the starting state can preset the number of high-priority and low-priority antennas according to the default classification rule, namely, the number of the users with different priorities in a certain place, so that the wireless access point can enter the state of providing different priority services for the users with different levels after being opened.
On one hand, the method for dividing the antenna priority in the working state avoids wasting excessive access resources on the premise of meeting the high-quality service of the high-priority user; on the other hand, in order to avoid the situation that the number of users with different priorities is changed greatly in a place with large personnel flow, when the preset number of high-priority antennas cannot meet the high-quality service of the high-priority users, temporary adjustment is carried out, and therefore the wireless access experience of the high-priority users is guaranteed.
Of course, the method for dividing the priority of the antennas in the operating state mentioned above is only a more common method for switching the priority of one of the antennas. In a specific application, if the number of users in different levels varies too much, one or more antennas may be randomly switched in priority.
The method for prioritizing the wireless terminal stations in step 2 specifically includes: according to the consumption information of the user, if the total consumption amount of the user is larger than or equal to a set consumption amount threshold value, marking the user as a high-priority user; and if the total consumption amount of the users is smaller than the set consumption amount threshold value, marking the users of the type as low-priority users.
The method for dividing the priority of the wireless terminal station is a practical dividing method in most places, and can promote the user consumption in the places to a certain extent and improve the wireless access service experience of the user after consumption.
The specific operation method comprises the following steps: introducing software, wherein each user has an account, the software comprises a wireless service module, after the user consumes, a merchant records the credit of the corresponding consumption amount into the account of the user through a client of the merchant, and when the user accesses wirelessly through the wireless service module, the user can distinguish whether the user is a high-priority user according to the credit and improve the access service of the corresponding priority.
In step 1, the number of the high priority antennas is greater than or equal to the number of the low priority antennas.
The setting of ensuring the service quality of the high-priority users, which is set as the most basic, generally speaking, the number of the high-priority users in most places is less or far less than that of the low-priority users, and the fixed few high-priority users share the same or more access resources than the majority of the low-priority users, so as to fundamentally ensure the service advantages of the high-priority users.
The step 3 specifically comprises the following steps: the wireless access point determines the priority of the wireless access point through the hardware address of the accessed wireless terminal station and allocates the antenna with the corresponding priority.
The access information of the wireless terminal station when accessing the wireless access point is many, but it is most accurate and efficient to identify or distinguish users by hardware addresses.
The present invention also provides a wireless access point, comprising:
the grading module is used for setting the priority of each antenna;
the recording module is used for recording the access information and the priority of the wireless terminal station;
the authentication module determines the priority of the wireless terminal station according to the hardware address of the accessed wireless terminal station;
and the distribution module is used for distributing the antennas with corresponding priorities according to the priorities of the accessed wireless terminal sites.
When the system is used, an administrator can obtain a more appropriate setting scheme by analyzing the number of previous users with different levels in a certain place, and set the priority of each antenna through a grading module so as to determine the number of high-priority antennas and low-priority antennas. And the recording module records the access information and the priority of different wireless terminal stations. When the wireless terminal station sends an access request to the wireless access point, the wireless access point passes through the authentication module, determines the priority of the wireless terminal station according to the hardware address recorded in the recording module, and then allocates the antenna with corresponding priority according to the priority through the allocation module.
In addition, the wireless access point also comprises a conversion module for setting conversion conditions and converting the antenna into different priorities under the condition of meeting the set conditions.
Specifically, the above-mentioned switching condition is generally the real-time access number of the high-priority user, and a highest switching threshold and a lowest switching threshold can be generally set. During operation, when the real-time access number of the high-priority user is greater than the highest switching threshold value, one or more low-priority antennas are switched to the high-priority antennas immediately in order to avoid the access quality of the high-priority user from being affected. When the real-time access number of the high-priority users is smaller than the lowest conversion threshold value, one or more high-priority antennas can be immediately converted into low-priority antennas in order to avoid excessive waste of access space on the premise of ensuring the access quality of the high-priority users.
Of course, the above-mentioned setting of the conversion condition is only a more common way, and a plurality of thresholds, such as a higher-level conversion threshold, a lower-level conversion threshold, etc., may also be set according to different use requirements of specific locations. And when the number of high priority users exceeds the high level one switching threshold but does not exceed the high level two switching threshold, only one low priority antenna is switched to the high priority antenna. And when the number of the high-priority users exceeds a high-level second-level conversion threshold value, converting the two low-priority antennas into high-priority antennas. Similarly, when the number of the high-priority users is lower than the low-level conversion threshold value but not lower than the low-level conversion threshold value, only one high-priority antenna is converted into a low-priority antenna; and when the number of the high-priority users is lower than the low-priority switching threshold value, switching the two high-priority antennas into the low-priority antenna. The conversion condition is more specific, and the use requirement of a larger place and a place with larger personnel flow can be more easily met. The method aims to improve the utilization rate of the wireless access space as much as possible on the premise of ensuring the service quality of the high-priority user.
The invention also provides a wireless access system based on the user priority, which comprises a plurality of wireless access points, a plurality of wireless terminal stations and a wireless access cloud server; the wireless access points collect access information and priorities of different wireless terminal stations and share the access information and the priorities through the wireless access cloud server.
In some larger sites, a plurality of wireless access points are often needed for coverage to ensure the wireless service quality. When a user moves in the place, the user can roam in the wireless access points, and in order to avoid the situation that the user needs to verify information such as priority from a new state when roaming, the wireless access cloud server is arranged to associate the wireless access points, and the user information of each wireless access point is shared, so that when the user roams among different wireless access points, the user can quickly obtain the verification of the priority, access service is quickly realized, and the user experience is improved.
The wireless access cloud server includes:
the storage module is used for storing a plurality of user lists and user priorities of the wireless access points;
and the communication module is used for carrying out information interaction with the recording module of the wireless access point, collecting the user information of each wireless access point and synchronizing the collected information to other wireless access points.
The communication module is used for performing information interaction with the recording modules of the wireless access points so that the wireless access points can share information. Specifically, the communication module collects user information of each wireless access point, updates the collected information to the storage module, and synchronizes an updated user list and user priority information to each wireless access point through the communication module once the storage module is updated.
Specific examples thereof include: the user A accesses the first wireless access point, and the user A is a low-priority user at the moment of access, and the recording module of the first wireless access point records the access information of the user A immediately, wherein the access information comprises a hardware address and low priority. Then, the recording module performs information interaction with a communication module of the wireless access cloud server, and the information of the user A collected by the communication module is updated to the storage module. Subsequently, when the user A comes into the coverage range of the second wireless access point, the user list is shared by the wireless access cloud server to the second wireless access point, the user A can access quickly at the position without authentication, and meanwhile, the user A is allocated with a low-priority antenna according to the identity of the low-priority user. And then, the user A is upgraded to a high-priority user through actions such as consumption, at the moment, the recording module of the wireless access point II updates the priority information of the user A immediately, the information is updated to the user list of the storage module through interaction with the wireless access cloud server, and the wireless access cloud server synchronizes the updated user list to the recording modules of the wireless access points through the communication module. Then, the user A comes within the coverage of the wireless access point III, the user A can quickly access the network without authentication, and the user A is allocated to the high-priority antenna with the identity of the high-priority user to enjoy high-quality access service.
The existing service for distinguishing the users with different priorities is mainly solved by providing higher bandwidth for the high-priority users through bandwidth limitation on a wireless access point, but the high-priority users are the same as the ordinary users on the wireless access, so the priority of the high-priority users is not reflected on the wireless access.
On one hand, the method is high in cost, complex to implement and low in running stability.
The invention can make the high priority user enjoy more access resources by carrying out priority classification on the antennas of the wireless access point and setting the number of the antennas with different priorities, so as to meet the requirements of providing wireless access services with different levels for clients with different priorities in certain places.
The invention is easy to implement and popularize, and has the advantages of obvious effect, lower use cost and higher running stability.
The specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the spirit of the invention. Various modifications or additions may be made to the described embodiments or alternatives may be employed by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or ambit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.