公开(公告)号：US11317471B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-26

申请号：US16798422

申请日：2020-02-23

Applicant: Charter Communications Operating, LLC

Inventor： Umamaheswar Achari Kakinada ,  Hossam Hmimy ,  Wael Guibene ,  Muhammad Khan

IPC: H04W88/16 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04B17/318

Abstract: A network server selects a gateway, from among a plurality of alternative candidate gateways, to use for downlink wireless communication to an end node (EN) based on additional factors in addition to RSSI. Exemplary additional factors include: SNR, gateway loading, message loading, backhaul network loading, device type, application type, application priority, operator preferences, device/application black-lists, white-lists, and red-lists, number of devices, number of transmitting devices in a given time interval, operator rules and priorities. In some embodiments, the network server calculates a composite weighted metric (CWM) for each of the alternative candidate gateways which may be used for downlink, subject to operator policy rules, and selects to use a gateway based on the results, e.g. selects the gateway with the highest CWM.

公开(公告)号：US20210235393A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-29

申请号：US16752480

申请日：2020-01-24

Applicant: Charter Communications Operating, LLC

Inventor： Wael Guibene ,  Umamaheswar Achari Kakinada ,  Hossam Hmimy

IPC: H04W52/24 ,  H04W88/16 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: An end point (EP) device may communicate with multiple gateways via wireless signals, e.g. wireless broadcast signals. An EP device is controlled, under the direction of a control server, e.g., an application server, to communicate via a single gateway. The control server associates the EP device with a single target gateway and/or uses EP transmission power control training iterations to reduce the EP transmission power level until the EP device is only able to successfully communicate its wireless signals to a single gateway.