COMMUNICATION QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION QUALITY EVALUATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION QUALITY EVALUATION PROGRAM FOR WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM

• US 20100057422A1
• Filed: 10/05/2007
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ebata, Koichi, Domon, Wataru
• Application Number:
  US12/444,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20100057422A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/13
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/22 Traffic simulation tools or models

Abstract

The object is to reduce the amount of processing in network simulation executed at the time of evaluating communication quality of a wireless LAN and reduce computation time of simulation based on a set radio wave propagation situation. At a step of executing network simulation in a wireless LAN communication quality evaluation method using network simulation, a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by a terminal at other access point or other terminal is considered to be the same as a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by an access point to which the terminal belongs at other access point or an access point to which other terminal belongs.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A communication quality evaluation method of a wireless LAN system using network simulation, wherein in network simulation step,

executing network simulation by considering a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by a terminal at other access point to which said terminal does not belong or other terminal to be the same as a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by an access point to which said terminal belongs at said other access point or other access point to which said other terminal belongs.

15. The quality evaluation method of a wireless LAN system according to claim 14, including:

a step of setting a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by said access point at said other access point, and

a step of setting a relationship of assignment of a terminal to an access point.

16. The quality evaluation method of a wireless LAN system according to claim 14, wherein in said step of executing network simulation, transmission and reception processing of traffic of said terminal is considered to be executed at said access point to which said terminal belongs.

17. The quality evaluation method of a wireless LAN system according to claim 15, wherein in said step of setting a situation of arrival of a radio wave,

by using a matrix having as many rows and columns as the number of access points, the row and the column of the matrix are correlated with a reception access point and a transmission access point to set a receivability situation at said reception access point by using 1 and 0.

27. The quality evaluation method of a wireless LAN system according to claim 15, wherein in said step of executing network simulation, transmission and reception processing of traffic of said terminal is considered to be executed at said access point to which said terminal belongs.

28. The quality evaluation method of a wireless LAN system according to claim 14, wherein in said step of setting a situation of arrival of a radio wave,

by using a matrix having as many rows and columns as the number of access points, the row and the column of the matrix are correlated with a reception access point and a transmission access point to set a receivability situation at said reception access point by using 1 and 0.

18. A communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system which executes network simulation, comprising:

a network simulation unit which executes said network simulation,

wherein said network simulation unit, at the time of executing network simulation, considers a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by a terminal at other access point to which said terminal does not belong or other terminal to be the same as a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by an access point to which said terminal belongs at said other access point or other access point to which said other terminal belongs.

19. The communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system according to claim 18, comprising:

a topology setting unit which sets topology of a network to be simulated,

an access point to access point radio wave propagation situation setting unit which sets a radio wave propagation situation indicating whether a radio wave transmitted by said access point reaches said other access point or not, and

a terminal belonging access point setting unit that sets to which access point a terminal included in topology set by said topology setting unit belongs,

wherein said network simulation unit executes network simulation based on a condition set by each said setting unit.

20. The communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system according to claim 18, wherein said network simulation unit considers transmission and reception processing of traffic of a terminal to be executed at said access point to which said terminal belongs.

21. The communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system according to claim 18, wherein said access point to access point radio wave propagation situation setting unit uses a matrix having as many rows and columns as the number of access points to correlate the row and the column of the matrix with a reception access point and a transmission access point and set a receivability situation at the reception access point in question by using 1 and 0.

22. The communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system according to claim 18, comprising an evaluation result providing unit which provides other terminal with an evaluation result output by said communication quality evaluation device through a network.

29. The communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system according to claim 19, wherein said network simulation unit considers transmission and reception processing of traffic of a terminal to be executed at said access point to which said terminal belongs.

30. The communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system according to claim 19, wherein said access point to access point radio wave propagation situation setting unit uses a matrix having as many rows and columns as the number of access points to correlate the row and the column of the matrix with a reception access point and a transmission access point and set a receivability situation at the reception access point in question by using 1 and 0.

31. The communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system according to claim 20, wherein said access point to access point radio wave propagation situation setting unit uses a matrix having as many rows and columns as the number of access points to correlate the row and the column of the matrix with a reception access point and a transmission access point and set a receivability situation at the reception access point in question by using 1 and 0.

32. The communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system according to claim 19, comprising an evaluation result providing unit which provides other terminal with an evaluation result output by said communication quality evaluation device through a network.

33. The communication quality evaluation device of a wireless LAN system according to claim 20, comprising an evaluation result providing unit which provides other terminal with an evaluation result output by said communication quality evaluation device through a network.

23. A computer readable medium storing a communication quality evaluation program which causes a computer to execute, in simulation executing processing, processing of considering a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by a terminal at other access point to which said terminal does not belong or other terminal to be the same as a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by an access point to which said terminal belongs at said other access point or other access point to which said other terminal belongs.

24. The computer readable medium storing a communication quality evaluation program according to claim 23, which causes a computer to execute

a arrival situation setting processing of setting a situation of arrival of a radio wave transmitted by said access point at said other access point,

a assignment relationship setting processing of setting a relationship of assignment of a terminal to an access point, and

a simulation execution processing of executing network simulation based on the condition set by said arrival situation setting processing and said assignment relationship setting processing.

25. The computer readable medium storing a communication quality evaluation program according to claim 23, which causes a computer to execute, in said simulation executing processing, processing of considering transmission and reception processing of traffic of a terminal to be executed at said access point to which said terminal belongs.

26. The computer readable medium storing a communication quality evaluation program according to claim 23, which causes a computer to execute, in said arrival situation setting processing, processing of using a matrix having as many rows and columns as the number of access points to correlate the row and the column of the matrix with a reception access point and a transmission access point and set a receivability situation at said reception access point by using 1 and 0.