Wireless characteristic display apparatus, wireless characteristic display method, and computer readable medium

• US 10,021,668 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2015
• Issued: 07/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Iijima, Shohei
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Belur, Deepa
• Application Number:
  US15/551,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20180035401A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,232 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/1027 assessing signal quality or detecting noise/interference for the received signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/18 Network planning tools
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/003 locating network equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

It is an object to provide a wireless characteristic display apparatus that displays wireless characteristics at a location where a multihop wireless mesh network is to be created, the apparatus being able to reduce discrepancies between displayed characteristics and actual characteristics and being able to reduce complexity in processing to obtain wireless characteristics and in the configuration of the apparatus.

The wireless characteristic display apparatus includes a first determination unit that performs interpolation processing on the basis of reception qualities obtained by measuring a wireless transmission signal from the same wireless node at a plurality of locations, and determines a reception quality at a location other than the measurement locations; a second determination unit that determines a pair of wireless nodes capable of bidirectional inter-node communication on the basis of the reception qualities obtained by the first determination unit and information on installation locations of wireless nodes; a third determination unit that determines a second communication range corresponding to the sum of communication ranges of the pair of wireless nodes obtained by the second determination unit; and a display unit that displays installation locations of the wireless nodes constituting the pair of wireless nodes obtained by the second determination unit and the second communication range obtained by the third determination unit.

Claims

1. A wireless characteristic display apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry to;

perform interpolation processing using reception qualities of a wireless transmission signal from a same wireless node measured at a plurality of measurement locations, and determine a reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at a location other than the measurement locations;

determine, on a basis of the determined reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at the location other than the measurement locations and information on installation locations of a plurality of wireless nodes, a pair of wireless nodes included in the plurality of wireless nodes and capable of bidirectional inter-node communication;

determine a communication range sum of communication ranges of the wireless nodes constituting the determined pair of wireless nodes capable of bidirectional inter-node communication; and

display installation locations of the wireless nodes constituting the determined pair of wireless nodes capable of bidirectional inter-node communication and the determined communication range sum.

2. The wireless characteristic display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the reception quality at the location other than the measurement locations includes a reception quality at an installation location of at least one wireless node of the plurality of wireless nodes, and

the processing circuitry determines the pair of wireless nodes capable of bidirectional inter-node communication, on a basis of the determined reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at the installation location of at least one wireless node.

3. The wireless characteristic display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the interpolation processing performs processing to determine an average using weighting with respect to each of the reception qualities of the wireless transmission signal measured at the plurality of measurement locations, in accordance with a distance between the location other than the measurement locations and each of the plurality of measurement locations.

4. The wireless characteristic display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing circuitry determines a pair capable of constituting a multihop wireless network, out of the determined pair of wireless nodes capable of bidirectional inter-node communication, and

displays a configuration of a network constituted by the determined pair capable of constituting the multihop wireless network.

5. The wireless characteristic display apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the processing circuitry determines a communication quality of the bidirectional inter-node communication with respect to each determined pair capable of constituting the multihop wireless network, and

displays the communication quality with respect to each determined pair of the wireless nodes when displaying the configuration of the network constituted by the determined pair capable of constituting the multihop wireless network.

6. The wireless characteristic display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry determines an overlapping area of communication ranges of wireless nodes as a relay node installation recommended range, on a basis of the determined reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at the location other than the measurement locations and the information on the installation locations of the wireless nodes, and

displays the determined relay node installation recommended range.

7. The wireless characteristic display according to claim 1,

wherein the processing circuitry determines a degree of overlapping of communication ranges of wireless nodes and ranges with different degrees of overlapping, on a basis of the determined reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at the location other than the measurement locations, and

displays the determined degree of overlapping of communication ranges of wireless nodes and the determined ranges with different degrees of overlapping.

8. The wireless characteristic display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing circuitry receives the wireless transmission signal to be used and measure the reception qualities, and

performs the interpolation processing using the measured reception qualities of the wireless transmission signal at the plurality of measurement locations, and determines the reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at the location other than the measurement locations.

9. A wireless characteristic display method comprising:

performing interpolation processing using reception qualities of a wireless transmission signal from a same wireless node measured at a plurality of measurement locations, and

determining a reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at a location other than the measurement locations;

determining, on a basis of the determined reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at the location other than the measurement locations and information on installation locations of a plurality of wireless nodes, a pair of wireless nodes included in the plurality of wireless nodes and capable of bidirectional inter-node communication;

determining a communication range sum of communication ranges of the wireless nodes constituting the determined pair of wireless nodes capable of bidirectional inter-node communication; and

displaying installation locations of the wireless nodes constituting the determined pair of wireless nodes capable of bidirectional inter-node communication and the determined communication range sum.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program to be executed in a wireless characteristic display apparatus including a processing device and a storage device, the program being able to be stored in the storage device and causing the processing device to function as:

a first determination unit to perform interpolation processing using reception qualities of a wireless transmission signal from a same wireless node measured at a plurality of measurement locations, and determine a reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at a location other than the measurement locations;

a second determination unit to determine, on a basis of the reception quality of the wireless transmission signal at the location other than the measurement locations determined by the first determination unit and information on installation locations of a plurality of wireless nodes, a pair of wireless nodes included in the plurality of wireless nodes and capable of bidirectional inter-node communication;

a third determination unit to determine a communication range sum of communication ranges of the wireless nodes constituting the pair of wireless nodes capable of bidirectional inter-node communication determined by the second determination unit; and

a display unit to display installation locations of the wireless nodes constituting the pair of wireless nodes capable of bidirectional inter-node communication determined by the second determination unit and the communication range sum determined by the third determination unit.