IP Library Granted Patent US 11,272,455
Granted Patent B2
US 11,272,455 · App. 16/902,412 · Granted Mar 8, 2022

Dynamic frequency selection for wake up radio

Inventors: Gaurav Patwardhan (Santa Clara, CA); Eldad Perahia (Park City, UT)
Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
H04W52/0229H04B17/318H04W16/14H04W84/12
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Patent No.
US 11,272,455
App. No.
16/902,412
Granted
Mar 8, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments are directed to dynamic frequency selection (DFS) for wake up radio (WUR). An embodiment of a storage medium includes instructions to cause operations including select, by a primary access point (AP), a surrogate AP to communicate with a wake up radio of a station that is associated with the primary AP operating on a Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) channel; provide, by the primary AP to the surrogate AP, wake up radio parameters negotiated between the station and the primary AP; cause, by the primary AP, the surrogate AP to send a wake up signal to the station, the wake up signal to cause the wake up radio of the station to enable a primary connectivity radio of the station; and exchange, by the primary AP, data with the station via the primary connectivity radio after the primary connectivity radio is enabled.

Claims (42)

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a hardware processor of a computing component of a device, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause the hardware processor to:

access a neighborhood graph comprising identification of one or more neighbor access points (APs) to a primary AP;

remove from consideration as a surrogate AP any of one or more neighborhood APs that are operating on a DFS channel as determined from the neighborhood graph, wherein the one or more neighborhood APs that remain pending for consideration as the surrogate AP comprise candidate APs;

select, by the hardware processor of the AP, a surrogate AP to communicate with a wake up radio of a station that is associated with the primary AP operating on an 802.11 Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) channel, where the surrogate AP is operating on a non-DFS channel, wherein the surrogate AP is selected from the candidate APs based on one or more criteria for surrogate selection;

provide, by the primary AP to the surrogate AP, wake up radio parameters negotiated between the station and the primary AP;

cause, by the primary AP, the surrogate AP to send a wake up signal to the station, the wake up signal to cause the wake up radio of the station to enable a primary connectivity radio of the station; and

exchange, by the primary AP, data with the station via the primary connectivity radio after the primary connectivity radio is enabled.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the one or more criteria comprise a strength of signal among the candidate APs.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the one or more criteria comprise a number of stations that each of the candidate APs are assigned as a surrogate.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to cause the surrogate AP to send a wake up signal to the station are in response to the primary AP receiving a packet destined for the station.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to cause the surrogate AP to send a wake up signal to the station are in response to an operational change to the basic service set (BSS) parameters of the primary AP.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to further cause the hardware processor to receive a wake up radio (WUR) mode notification from the station that the station is entering a WUR mode.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the instructions to further cause the hardware processor to notify, in response to receiving the WUR mode notification, the surrogate AP to be on standby for sending the wake up signal.

8. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 6 , wherein the instructions to further cause the hardware processor to receive a packet destined for the station while the station is in the WUR mode, and wherein causing the surrogate AP to send the wake up signal is in response to receiving the packet destined for the station.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to further cause the hardware processor to notify, in response to exchanging the data with the station via the primary connectivity radio, the surrogate AP that the wake up signal sent to the station was successful.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the primary AP and the surrogate AP are the same AP comprising a first 5 GHz radio operating on the DFS channel and a second 5 GHz radio operating on the non-DFS channel.

11. A method comprising:

accessing a neighborhood graph comprising identification of one or more neighbor access points (APs) to a primary AP;

removing from consideration as a surrogate AP any of one or more neighborhood APs that are operating on a DFS channel as determined from the neighborhood graph, wherein the one or more neighborhood APs that remain pending for consideration as the surrogate AP comprise candidate APs;

selecting, by a hardware processor of the primary AP, a surrogate AP to communicate with a wake up radio of a station that is associated with the primary AP operating on an 802.11 Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) channel, where the surrogate AP is operating on a non-DFS channel, wherein the surrogate AP is selected from the candidate APs based on one or more criteria for surrogate selection;

providing, by the primary AP to the surrogate AP, wake up radio parameters negotiated between the station and the primary AP;

causing, by the primary AP, the surrogate AP to send a wake up signal to the station in response to the primary AP receiving a packet destined for the station, the wake up signal to cause the wake up radio of the station to enable a primary connectivity radio of the station; and

exchanging, by the primary AP, data with the station via the primary connectivity radio after the primary connectivity radio is enabled.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the one or more criteria comprise at least one of a strength of signal among the candidate APs or a number of stations that each of the candidate APs are assigned as a surrogate.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving a wake up radio (WUR) mode notification from the station that the station is entering a WUR mode; and

notifying, in response to receiving the WUR mode notification, the surrogate AP to be on standby for sending the wake up signal.

14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising receiving a packet destined for the station while the station is in the WUR mode, wherein causing the surrogate AP to send the wake up signal is in response to receiving the packet destined for the station.

15. A primary access point (AP) comprising:

a processor;

a transmitter and receiver for Wi-Fi communication; and

firmware including wake up radio (WUR) surrogate code to provide dynamic frequency selection (DFS) for WUR, wherein the primary AP is to:

access a neighborhood graph comprising identification of one or more neighbor access points (APs) to the primary AP;

remove from consideration as a surrogate AP any of one or more neighborhood APs that are operating on a DFS channel as determined from the neighborhood graph, wherein the one or more neighborhood APs that remain pending for consideration as the surrogate AP comprise candidate APs;

select a surrogate AP to communicate with a wake up radio of a station that is associated with the primary AP operating on an 802.11 Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) channel, where the surrogate AP is operating on a non-DFS channel, wherein the surrogate AP is selected from the candidate APs based on one or more criteria for surrogate selection;

provide, to the surrogate AP, wake up radio parameters negotiated between the station and the primary AP;

cause the surrogate AP to send a wake up signal to the station in response to the primary AP receiving a packet destined for the station, the wake up signal to cause the wake up radio of the station to enable a primary connectivity radio of the station; and

exchange data with the station via the primary connectivity radio after the primary connectivity radio is enabled.

16. The primary AP of claim 15 , wherein the one or more criteria comprise at least one of a strength of signal among the candidate APs or a number of stations that each of the candidate APs are assigned as a surrogate.

17. The primary AP of claim 15 , wherein the primary AP is further to:

receive a wake up radio (WUR) mode notification from the station that the station is entering a WUR mode; and

notify, in response to receiving the WUR mode notification, the surrogate AP to be on standby for sending the wake up signal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 23, 2020
From: PATWARDHAN, GAURAV; PERAHIA, ELDAD
To: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Reel/Frame 053014/0180 →
Continuity (1)
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