Abstract: A method of determining wireless service quality in a shared environment includes receiving a wireless transmission from a client device in the shared environment and processing the received wireless transmission to determine a client modulation-and-coding scheme and a client device attribute associated with the client device. A rank of the client device is calculated using the client sample wherein the rank is based on a universal index that is related to the client modulation-and-coding scheme and related to the client device attribute. A wireless service quality of the shared environment is then inferred based on the calculated rank of the client device.

Abstract: A distributed network performance management system and method that distributes a large portion of the network performance management to wireless client devices connected to the network. Rather than rely on a central server to perform the bulk of network performance management, a distributed network performance management system offloads much of the work of service quality testing, reporting, and troubleshooting to wireless client devices that are connected to the network. It utilizes spare computing power and storage space on the wireless client devices to reduce the cloud operation costs of the system including such things as bandwidth requirements, data storage requirements, and data processing requirements.

Abstract: A distributed network performance management system and method that distributes a large portion of the network performance management to wireless client devices connected to the network. Rather than rely on a central server to perform the bulk of network performance management, a distributed network performance management system offloads much of the work of service quality testing, reporting, and troubleshooting to wireless client devices that are connected to the network. It utilizes spare computing power and storage space on the wireless client devices to reduce the cloud operation costs of the system including such things as bandwidth requirements, data storage requirements, and data processing requirements.