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Optimized roaming allows wireless access points to disassociate clients and prevent associations when the client's RSSI is low. This improves network performance by ensuring stable connections. The document discusses configuring optimized roaming through the GUI and CLI, including setting the data rate threshold, reporting interval, and viewing statistics.

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Information About Optimized Roaming

Optimized roaming allows wireless access points to disassociate clients and prevent associations when the client's RSSI is low. This improves network performance by ensuring stable connections. The document discusses configuring optimized roaming through the GUI and CLI, including setting the data rate threshold, reporting interval, and viewing statistics.

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Optimized Roaming

• Information About Optimized Roaming, on page 1


• Restrictions for Optimized Roaming, on page 1
• Configuring Optimized Roaming (GUI), on page 2
• Configuring Optimized Roaming (CLI), on page 2

Information About Optimized Roaming


Optimized roaming resolves the problem of sticky clients that remain associated to access points that are far
away and outbound clients that attempt to connect to a Wi-Fi network without having a stable connection.
This feature disassociates clients based on the RSSI of the client data packets and data rate. The client is
disassociated if the RSSI alarm condition is met and the current data rate of the client is lower than the
optimized roaming data rate threshold. You can disable the data rate option so that only RSSI is used for
disassociating clients.
Optimized roaming also prevents client association when the client's RSSI is low. This feature checks the
RSSI of the incoming client against the RSSI threshold. This check prevents the clients from connecting to a
Wi-Fi network unless the client has a viable connection. In many scenarios, even though clients can hear
beacons and connect to a Wi-Fi network, the signal might not be strong enough to support a stable connection.
You can also configure the client coverage reporting interval for a radio by using optimized roaming. The
client coverage statistics include data packet RSSIs, Coverage Hole Detection and Mitigation (CHDM)
prealarm failures, retransmission requests, and current data rates.
Optimized roaming is useful in the following scenarios:
• Addresses the sticky client challenge by proactively disconnecting clients.
• Actively monitors data RSSI packets.
• Disassociates client when the RSSI is lower than the set threshold.

Restrictions for Optimized Roaming


• You cannot configure the optimized roaming interval until you disable the 802.11a/b network.

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• When basic service set (BSS) transition is sent 802.11v-capable clients, and if the clients are not
transitioned to other BSS before the disconnect timer expires, the corresponding client is disconnected
forcefully. BSS transition is enabled by default for 802.11v-capable clients.

Configuring Optimized Roaming (GUI)


Procedure

Step 1 Choose Configuration > Wireless > Advanced.


Step 2 On the Advanced page, click the relevant band's tab: either 5 GHz Band or 2.4 GHz Band.
Step 3 Check the Optimized Roaming Mode check box to enable the feature.
Step 4 Choose the required Optimized Roaming Date Rate Threshold. The threshold value options are different
for 802.11a and 802.11b networks.
Step 5 Save the configuration.

Configuring Optimized Roaming (CLI)


Procedure

Command or Action Purpose


Step 1 ap dot11 5ghz rrm optimized-roam Configures 802.11a or 802.11b optimized
roaming.
Example:
Device(config)# ap dot11 5ghz rrm By default, optimized roaming is disabled.
optimized-roam

Step 2 ap dot11 5ghz rrm optimized-roam Configures the client coverage reporting interval
reporting-interval interval-seconds for 802.11a or 802.11b networks.
The range is from 5 to 90 seconds. The default
value is 90 seconds.

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Command or Action Purpose


Note You must disable the 802.11a
network before you configure the
optimized roaming reporting
interval.
The access point sends the client
statistics to the controller based on
the following conditions:
• When the reporting-interval
interval-seconds is set to 90
seconds by default.
• When the reporting-interval
interval-seconds is configured
(for instance to 10 secs) only
during optimized roaming
failure due to the Coverage
Hole Detection (CHD) RED
ALARM.

Step 3 ap dot11 5ghz rrm optimized-roam Configure the threshold data rate for 802.11a
data-rate-threshold mbps networks.
For 802.11a, the configurable data rates are 1,
2, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 54. You can
configure DISABLE to disable the data rate.

Step 4 show ap dot11 5ghz optimized-roaming Displays information about optimized roaming
for each band.
Example:
Device# show ap dot11 5ghz
optimized-roaming
802.11a OptimizedRoaming

Mode : Disabled
Reporting Interval : 90 seconds
Rate Threshold : Disabled
Hysteresis : 6 db

Step 5 show ap dot11 5ghz optimized-roaming Displays information about optimized roaming
statistics statistics.
Example:
Step 6 show wireless statistics ap dot11 5ghz Displays optimized roaming statistics for each
optimized-roaming statistics band.
Example:
Device# show wireless statistics ap dot11
5ghz optimized-roaming statistics
802.11a OptimizedRoaming statistics

Disassociations

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Command or Action Purpose


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