CN107484188A

CN107484188A - A kind of method and wireless access point controller for managing WAP

Info

Publication number: CN107484188A
Application number: CN201710557749.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 吴振华
Original assignee: Shanghai Feixun Data Communication Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Feixun Data Communication Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-07-10
Filing date: 2017-07-10
Publication date: 2017-12-15

Abstract

The many aspects of the present invention disclose a kind of method and wireless access point controller for managing WAP, one wireless access point controller AC is connected with least one main access point AP, each main AP is connected one AP group of composition with least one from AP, and the main AP that the AC is connected through sends administration order to all of the main affiliated AP groups of AP from AP；Or the main AP that the AC is connected through monitors all from AP of the main affiliated AP groups of AP.Pass through the method and wireless access point controller of the management WAP, all AP that the AC can administer to it are attached condition monitoring, configuration information issues and event-monitoring, it is achieved thereby that all AP that AC administers to it real-time management and control, have also reached the purpose that dilatation is carried out to AC.

Description

A kind of method and wireless access point controller for managing WAP

Technical field

The present embodiments relate to wireless communication field, more particularly to a kind of method for managing WAP and wirelessly connect Enter base site controller.

Background technology

WAP (Access Point, AP) is the wireless exchange board in wireless network, and it is mobile terminal user Into the access point of cable network, it is mainly used in home broadband, Intranet deployment etc., wireless coverage distance is tens meters To rice up to a hundred, major technique is 802.11X series.AP is only to provide the function of a wireless signal transmission, and its work is former Reason is to send network signal by twisted-pair feeder, by the compiling of wireless aps, is converted the electrical signal to as radio signals Send out, form the covering of wireless network.According to different power, level of network coverage is also different, general wireless aps Largest coverage distance up to 400 meters.Therefore, in simple terms, AP has relaying plus bridging functionality, and it can realize two wirelessly Device talk, amplified signal can also be played a part of.

Wireless router is a kind of combination of simple form access point and broadband router, is to carry wireless coverage function Router, it is mainly used in user's online and wireless coverage.Pass through routing function, it is possible to achieve in family wireless network Internet connections are shared, can also realize the wireless sharing access of ADSL and partial wideband.

Wireless router is considered as a transponder, and the broadband network signal picked out in family on wall is forwarded by antenna To neighbouring Wireless Communication Equipment, for example, notebook computer, the mobile phone for supporting wifi, flat board and all carrying WIFI function Equipment.

Wireless access point controller (Wireless Access Point Controller, AC) is a kind of network equipment, For centralization control wireless aps, be a wireless network core, all wireless aps being responsible in wireless network, to AP Management includes：Issue configuration, modification relevant configured parameter, radio-frequency intelligent management, access security control etc..

In the prior art, AP sends the connection request of preset protocol to AC, and the AC and AP establishes the connection of preset protocol simultaneously Enter row data communication, when when being connected to up to preset duration, being disconnected with the AP.That is, AP and AC connection is that have Time restriction, it is assumed that AC hardware performance only allows it while is attached with 4 AP, and the AC can be carried out first with 4 AP Connection, just disconnects, the AC can establish new connection with other 4 AP afterwards after being connected to up to preset duration.

As can be seen here, increasing with the application places of wireless network, user needs an AC to connect more AP, but synchronization can only have part AP to be connected with AC in currently available technology, and receive AC management, remaining AP is in non-management The phenomenon that state, this configuration that can cause to be partially in the AP of nonsupervisor mode and reported data are lost.

The content of the invention

Many aspects of the present invention provide a kind of method and wireless access point controller for managing WAP, can increase every The quantity for the AP that individual AC can be connected, and do not improve hardware cost in the case of no change AC hardware performance.

An aspect of of the present present invention provides a kind of method for managing WAP, wireless access point controller (AC) with At least one main access point (AP) is connected, and each main AP is connected one AP group of composition with least one from AP, wherein, the side Method includes：

The main AP that the AC is connected through sends administration order to the AC main AP being connected through；Or

The main AP that the AC is connected through monitors all from AP of the main affiliated AP groups of AP.

Alternatively, it is described during the configuration information that the administration order is configured for the first AP groups that the AC connects to it All AP of the first AP groups configuration information is sent to the first main AP of the first AP groups by AC, and then described All configuration informations from AP of one AP groups are handed down to all from AP of its connection by the main AP.

Alternatively, when event occurring from AP for one of the 2nd AP groups of the AC connections, the AC receives the 2nd AP The event that should occur from AP that second main AP of group is reported, the event report the described second main AP by described from AP.

Alternatively, the main AP of each AP groups preserves all information from AP of the AP groups, and the AC preserves the AC and its The connection relational table of each AP groups of connection.

Alternatively, the AC is connected by capwap or tr069 agreements with the main AP of each AP groups, the master of each AP groups AP is connected by capwap or tr069 agreements with all of the AP groups from AP.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a kind of wireless access point controller (AC), the AC and at least one main access point (AP) it is connected, each main AP is connected one AP group of composition with least one from AP, wherein, the AC includes transmitter and reception Device, wherein,

The transmitter is used to send the administration order, institute to the main AP of one or more of at least one main AP State administration order connect again from the main AP for receiving the administration order to it is all from AP transmissions；Or

The receiver is used to receive the monitoring information that the main AP of one or more of at least one main AP are sent, institute Monitoring information is stated to be obtained from AP from monitored by the main AP for sending the monitoring information.

Alternatively, the AC also includes processor, matches somebody with somebody for producing to what the first AP groups of the AC connections were configured Confidence ceases, and the transmitter is additionally operable to for all AP of the first AP groups configuration information to be sent to the of the first AP groups One main AP, then the configuration information all from AP of the main AP connections are handed down to by the described first main AP.

Alternatively, the monitoring information is one of the 2nd AP groups event from AP generations of the AC connections, the reception Described event that should occur from AP that the second main AP that device is additionally operable to receive the 2nd AP groups is reported, the event by it is described from AP reports the described second main AP.

Alternatively, the main AP of each AP groups preserves all information from AP of the AP groups, and the AC also includes memory, uses In the connection relational table for preserving the connected each AP groups of the AC.

The method and wireless access point controller of a kind of management WAP of foregoing description, can increase each AC can The AP of connection quantity, and do not improve hardware cost in the case of no change AC hardware performance.

Brief description of the drawings

In order to illustrate more clearly about the embodiment of the present invention or technical scheme of the prior art, below will be to embodiment or existing There is the required accompanying drawing used in technology description to be briefly described, it should be apparent that, drawings in the following description are this hairs Some bright embodiments, for those of ordinary skill in the art, on the premise of not paying creative work, can be with root Other accompanying drawings are obtained according to these accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a kind of system structure diagram of management WAP of one embodiment of the invention；

Fig. 2 is a kind of schematic flow sheet of the method for management WAP of another embodiment of the present invention；

Fig. 3 is the system structure diagram of another management WAP of another embodiment of the present invention.

Embodiment

To make the purpose, technical scheme and advantage of the embodiment of the present invention clearer, below in conjunction with the embodiment of the present invention In accompanying drawing, the technical scheme in the embodiment of the present invention is clearly and completely described, it is clear that described embodiment is Part of the embodiment of the present invention, rather than whole embodiments.Based on the embodiment in the present invention, those of ordinary skill in the art The every other embodiment obtained under the premise of creative work is not made, belongs to the scope of protection of the invention.

The techniques described herein may be used in various communication systems, such as 2G, 3G, 4G communication system and next generation communication system Unite (for example, 5G), such as global mobile communication (Global System for Mobile Communication, GSM) system, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA) system, time division multiple acess (Time Division Multiple Access, TDMA) system, WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA) system, frequency division multiple access (Frequency Division Multiple Access, FDMA) system is orthogonal Frequency division multiple access (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access, OFDMA) system, Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) system, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service, GPRS) system, is drilled for a long time Enter (Long Term Evolution, LTE) system, and other such communication systems.Cdma system can realize such as general nothing The radiotechnics such as line land access (Universal Terrestrial Radio Access, UTRA), CDMA2000.UTRA Including broadband-CDMA (WCDMA) and other CDMA variants.In addition, CDAM2000 covers IS-2000, IS-95 and IS-856 mark It is accurate.TDMA system can realize the radiotechnics of global system for mobile communications (GSM) etc..OFDMA system can be realized such as Evolved universal terrestrial wireless access (Evolved-UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access, E-UTRA), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (Ultra Mobile Broadband, UMB), IEEE802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE802.20, The radiotechnics such as Flash-OFDMA.UTRA and E-UTRA is UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System, UMTS) a part.3GPP Long Term Evolutions (for example, LTE) are UMTS use E- UTRA version, it can use OFDMA on the uplink, and can use SC-FDMA on uplink.UTRA、E-UTRA、 UMTS, LTE and GSM are described in the document of " third generation partnership project (3GPP) " tissue.In addition, CDAM2000 and UMB descriptions In the document of " third generation partnership project 2 (3GPP2) " tissue.

The terms "and/or", only a kind of incidence relation for describing affiliated partner, expression may have three kinds of passes System, for example, A and/or B, can be represented：Individualism A, while A and B be present, these three situations of individualism B.In addition, herein Middle character "/", it is a kind of relation of "or" to typically represent forward-backward correlation object.In addition, the terms " system " and " network " Often it is used interchangeably herein.

As shown in figure 1, a kind of system structure diagram of management WAP for one embodiment of the invention, the pipe The system of reason WAP includes at least one wireless access point controller (AC) and at least one set of AP, and each AP groups include One main access point (AP) and be connected it is at least one be only connected from AP, each AC with the main AP that it is administered, for example, Each AC be connected with N number of main AP, wherein, shown N is the positive integer more than or equal to 1, such as N is equal to 4, each main AP and at least One forms an AP group from AP connections, wherein, the AC is used for each AP corresponding to each main AP management for being connected through That organizes is all from AP.

The main AP of each AP groups preserves all information from AP of the AP groups, for example, the main AP of each AP groups preserves the AP Group it is all from the identifying of AP, main AP mark and/or main AP and the connection relational table from AP, for example, the main AP with The connection relational table from AP can the marks of the AP based on and all relation tables from AP marks.The AC preserves the AC and its The connection relational table of each AP groups of connection, for example, the AC stores the pass of the mark of the AC and the group mark of each AP groups It is table, in another embodiment of the invention, the group mark of each AP groups can be the main AP marks of the AP groups.

Each AC is connected by capwap or tr069 agreements with the main AP of its each AP group administered, each AP groups Main AP is connected by capwap or tr069 agreements with all of the AP groups from AP.

When each AP groups that each AC administers to it configure, for example, as shown in figure 1, what the AC connected to it When first AP groups are configured, all AP of the first AP groups configuration information is sent to the first AP groups by the AC First main AP, then the main AP by the first AP groups it is all from AP configuration information be handed down to the main AP connections it is all from AP。

When event occurs from AP in some, for example, when should be connected or disconnect with the main AP of its affiliated AP group from AP, should be from AP The reporting events of generation are given to the main AP of its affiliated AP group, then the AC for being connected the reporting events to it by the main AP, such as It is described to give the reporting events to the 2nd AP groups from AP when event occurring from AP for one of the 2nd AP groups of the AC connections The second main AP, the second main AP gives the reporting events to the AC again.

For example, it is assumed that the hardware performance of the AC only allows it while is attached with 4 AP, the AP of the present embodiment is utilized The scheme of group, the AC can at most establish a connection with 4 main AP, that is, four groups, if every group of main AP reconnects 3 It is managed from AP, then AC actually cans manage 4*4=16 platform AP simultaneously, so as to greatly improve AC management AP number Amount.

Therefore, can be done by the description of above-described embodiment, all AP that the AC can administer to it are attached state Monitoring, configuration information issues and event-monitoring, it is achieved thereby that all AP that AC administers to it real-time management and control, also reach The purpose that dilatation is carried out to AC is arrived.

As shown in Fig. 2 the schematic flow sheet of the method for a kind of management WAP of another embodiment of the present invention.

In the method for the management WAP of the present embodiment, a wireless access point controller (AC) and at least one master Access point (AP) is connected, and each main AP is connected one AP group of composition with least one from AP, for example, the AC passes through capwap Or tr069 agreements are connected with the main AP of each AP groups, the main AP of each AP groups passes through capwap or tr069 agreements and the AP groups All be connected from AP.

Step 201, the main AP that the AC is connected through sends administration order to all of the main affiliated AP groups of AP from AP.

Step 202, the main AP that the AC is connected through monitors all from AP of the main affiliated AP groups of AP.

For example, when the administration order is the configuration information that the first AP groups that the AC connects to it are configured, it is described All AP of the first AP groups configuration information is sent to the first main AP of the first AP groups by AC, and then described All configuration informations from AP of one AP groups are handed down to all from AP of its connection by the main AP.

For example, when event occurring from AP for one of the 2nd AP groups of the AC connections, the AC receives the 2nd AP groups Described events that should occur from AP for reporting of the second main AP, the event report the described second main AP by described from AP.

As shown in figure 3, the structural representation of the system for a kind of management WAP of another embodiment of the present invention, this In embodiment, the AC is connected with least one main access point (AP), and each main AP is connected composition one with least one from AP Individual AP groups, wherein, the AC includes transmitters and receivers, for example, the AC passes through capwap or tr069 agreements and each AP The main AP of group is connected, and the main AP of each AP groups is connected by capwap or tr069 agreements with all of the AP groups from AP.

For example, it is described management WAP system include wireless access point controller, the first main AP, the second main AP, Be connected with the described first main AP it is at least one be connected from AP and with the described second main AP it is at least one from AP, it is described wirelessly to connect Enter base site controller only has direct connection relational with the first main AP and the second main AP respectively, and the direct connection relational refers to described Wireless access point controller passes through wired or wireless connection between the first main AP and the second main AP respectively.

The wireless access point controller includes receiver (receiver) 301, processor (processor) 302, sent Device (transmitter) 303, memory (memory) 304 and bus 305；Wherein, the receiver 301, the processor 302nd, the transmitter 303 and the memory 304 complete mutual communication by the bus 305.

In embodiments of the present invention, the processor 302 can be CPU (Central Processing Unit, CPU), the processor 302 can also be other general processors, digital signal processor (Digital Signal Processing, DSP), it is application specific integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), existing It is field programmable gate array (Field-Programmable Gate Array, FPGA) or other PLDs, discrete Door or transistor logic, discrete hardware components etc..General processor can be that microprocessor or the processor also may be used To be any conventional processor, such as single-chip microcomputer etc..

The memory 304 is used for store program codes or instruction, and described program code includes computer-managed instruction, institute State program code or instruction that processor 302 is used to perform the memory storage.The memory 304 may include at a high speed RAM memory, it is also possible to also deposited including nonvolatile memory (non-volatile memory), for example, at least a disk Reservoir.

The bus 305 can be industry standard architecture (Industry Standard Architecture, ISA) Bus, Peripheral Component Interconnect standard (Peripheral Component Interconnect, PCI) bus or extension industry mark Quasi- structure (Extended Industry Standard Architecture, EISA) bus etc..The bus 305 can be divided into Address bus, data/address bus, controlling bus etc..For ease of representing, only represented in figure with a thick line, it is not intended that only one Root bus or a type of bus.

The transmitter 303 is used to send the management life to the main AP of one or more of at least one main AP Order, the administration order are connected all from AP transmissions from the main AP for receiving the administration order to it again；Or

The receiver 301 is used to receive the monitoring letter that the main AP of one or more of at least one main AP are sent Breath, the monitoring information are obtained by the main AP for sending the monitoring information from monitored from AP.

The processor 302 is used to produce the configuration information for configuring the first AP groups of the AC connections, the hair Device 303 is sent to be additionally operable to all AP of the first AP groups configuration information being sent to the first main AP of the first AP groups, so The configuration information is handed down to all from AP of the main AP connections by the described first main AP afterwards.

The monitoring information is an event occurred from AP of the 2nd AP groups of the AC connections, and the receiver 301 is also The event that should occur from AP that the second main AP for receiving the 2nd AP groups is reported, the event is by described from AP Offer the described second main AP.

The main AP of each AP groups preserves all information from AP of the AP groups, for example, the main AP of each AP groups preserves the AP Group it is all from the identifying of AP, main AP mark and/or main AP and the connection relational table from AP, for example, the main AP with The connection relational table from AP can the AP based on mark with it is all from AP mark relation tables, the memory 304 be used for protect Deposit the connection relational table of the connected each AP groups of the AC, for example, the memory 304 store the mark of the AC with often The relation table of the group mark of individual AP groups, in another embodiment of the invention, the group mark of each AP groups can be the AP groups Main AP marks.

Device embodiment described above is only schematical, wherein the unit illustrated as separating component can To be or may not be physically separate, it can be as the part that unit is shown or may not be physics list Member, you can with positioned at a place, or can also be distributed on multiple NEs.It can be selected according to the actual needs In some or all of module realize the purpose of this embodiment scheme.Those of ordinary skill in the art are not paying creativeness Work in the case of, you can to understand and implement.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can be understood that each embodiment can Realized by the mode of software plus required general hardware platform, naturally it is also possible to pass through hardware.Based on such understanding, on The part that technical scheme substantially in other words contributes to prior art is stated to embody in the form of software product, should Computer software product can store in a computer-readable storage medium, such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disc, CD, including some fingers Make to cause a computer equipment (can be personal computer, server, or network equipment etc.) to perform each implementation Method described in some parts of example or embodiment.

Finally it should be noted that：The above embodiments are merely illustrative of the technical solutions of the present invention, rather than its limitations；Although The present invention is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those within the art that：It still may be used To be modified to the technical scheme described in foregoing embodiments, or equivalent substitution is carried out to which part technical characteristic； And these modification or replace, do not make appropriate technical solution essence depart from various embodiments of the present invention technical scheme spirit and Scope.

Claims

A kind of 1. method for managing WAP, it is characterised in that a wireless access point controller AC and at least one master Access point AP is connected, and each main AP is connected one AP group of composition with least one from AP, wherein, methods described includes：

The main AP that the AC is connected through sends administration order to all of the main affiliated AP groups of AP from AP；Or

The main AP that the AC is connected through monitors all from AP of the main affiliated AP groups of AP.
2. the method as described in claim 1, it is characterised in that when the administration order is the first AP groups that the AC connects to it During the configuration information configured, all AP of the first AP groups configuration information is sent to described first by the AC First main AP of AP groups, then all configuration informations from AP of the first AP groups all of its connection are handed down to by the main AP From AP.
3. the method as described in claim 1, it is characterised in that one when the 2nd AP groups of the AC connections occurs event from AP When, what the second main AP that the AC receives the 2nd AP groups was reported should be from described event of AP generations, and the event is by described The described second main AP is reported from AP.
4. the method as described in claim 1-3 any one, it is characterised in that the main AP of each AP groups preserves the institute of the AP groups There is the information from AP, the AC preserves the connection relational table of the connected each AP groups of the AC.
5. the method as described in claim 1-3 any one, it is characterised in that the AC passes through capwap or tr069 agreements It is connected with the main AP of each AP groups, the main AP of each AP groups is all from AP by capwap or tr069 agreements and the AP groups It is connected.
6. a kind of wireless access point controller AC, it is characterised in that the AC is connected with least one main access point AP, each Main AP is connected one AP group of composition with least one from AP, wherein, the AC includes transmitters and receivers, wherein,

The transmitter is used to send the administration order, the pipe to the main AP of one or more of at least one main AP Reason order is connected all from AP transmissions from the main AP for receiving the administration order to it again；Or

The receiver is used to receive the monitoring information that the main AP of one or more of at least one main AP are sent, the prison Control information is obtained by the main AP for sending the monitoring information from monitored from AP.
7. AC as claimed in claim 6, it is characterised in that the AC also includes processor, for producing to the AC connections The configuration information that is configured of the first AP groups, the transmitter is additionally operable to all AP of the first AP groups configuration information The first main AP of the first AP groups is sent to, then the configuration information is handed down to the institute of the main AP connections by the described first main AP Have from AP.
8. AC as claimed in claim 6, it is characterised in that the monitoring information for one of the 2nd AP groups of the AC connections from The event that AP occurs, what the second main AP that the receiver is additionally operable to receive the 2nd AP groups was reported should be from described in AP generations Event, the event report the described second main AP by described from AP.
9. the AC as described in claim 6-8 any one, it is characterised in that the main AP of each AP groups preserves all of the AP groups From AP information, the AC also includes memory, for preserving the connection relational table of the connected each AP groups of the AC.
10. the AC as described in claim 6-8 any one, it is characterised in that the AC by capwap or tr069 agreements with The main AP of each AP groups is connected, and the main AP of each AP groups is all from AP phases by capwap or tr069 agreements and the AP groups Connection.