Specifications

OmniAccess Reference: AOS-W System Reference
700 Part 031652-00 May 2005
Where:
Example
(Alcatel6000) (config) #arm acceptable-coverage-index 2 arm backoff-time
230 arm error-rate-threshold 3 arm error-rate-wait-time 50 arm
free-channel-index 30 arm ideal-coverage-index 2 arm min-scan-time 30 arm
wait-time 40
Option Description
acceptable-coverag
e-index <index>
This specifies to the AP how good the coverage in on this
channel should be. The range is .
The default is 2. In general, the more APs there are in a
given area, the lower this number should be.
backoff-time
<backoff time>
Specifies how long (in seconds) the AP should wait after
asking for a new channel or power setting. The default is
230 seconds. Range .
error-rate-threshold
<threshold value>
Specifes the minimim percentage of errors in traffic on a
channel the AP experiences before it should change
channels. The default is 0% but Alcatel recommends a
setting of 50%. Range is 0-100%.
error-rate-wait-time
<wait time>
Speifies how long the AP experiences high error rates.
free-channel-index
<free channel index
value>
Specifies how much better the new channel must be (in
terms of interference) before the AP will switch to the
new channel.
The higher the value, the lower the likehood that an AP
will move to the new channel. The default is 25.
ideal-coverage-inde
x <coverage index
value>
Specifies what the ideal coverage (as opposed to the
acceptable coverage) should be for a channel. The
denser the AP deployment, lower this value should be.
The default is 5. In general, the more APs there are in a
given area, the lower this number should be.
min-scan-time
<scan time>
Specifies the least amount of time an AP must scan a
channel before determining if it is suitable to switch to
noise-threshold Specifies how much noise can exist on a channel before
the AP must switch to another channel. The default is 0
but Alcatel recommends 80
noise wait-time
<wait time value>
Specifies how long a channel can be noisy before the AP
must find a better channel. The default is 120.
wait-time Specifies how long (in seconds) the AP must wait after a
channel or power change before passing traffic. The
default is 15 seconds.