TECHNIQUES AND ARCHITECTURES FOR COLLABORATIVE SCANNING BY OFFLOADING SCAN FUNCTIONALITY TO CLIENT DEVICES

摘要

Techniques and mechanisms for offloading of off-channel scanning. Characteristics corresponding to wireless client devices within a wireless network are evaluated. A request is sent from a wireless access point of the wireless network to one or more selected wireless client devices from wireless client devices. The request causes the one or more selected wireless clients to perform off-channel scanning. Reports are received from the one or more selected wireless client devices having information gathered by the off-channel scanning performed by the selected wireless client devices. Information from the reports is utilized to perform network setting modification.