SELECTION OF ANCHOR CONTROLLERS FOR ACCESS POINTS WITHIN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

According to one embodiment of the invention, a non-transitory computer readable medium for improving the scalability sad redundancy of a wireless communications network. One embodiment of the non-transitory computer readable medium comprises instructions that select a first controller for controlling a configuration of a first access point and a second access point, detect a particular event and, responsive to detecting the particular event, select a second controller for controlling the configuration of the first access point without modifying the selection of the first controller for controlling the configuration of the second access point.