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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2016
Landis+gyr Innovations, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Jeffrey Shudark, Cumming, GA (US);
James Patrick Hanley, Decatur, GA (US);
Landis+Gyr Innovations, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for selecting a parent node in a time-slotted channel hopping ('TSCH') network. A method can include synchronizing, by a low-energy node, communications with a channel hopping pattern of a primary TSCH network. The method can further include transmitting, by the low-energy node, a selection-phase enhanced beacon request that requests an enhanced beacon from TSCH nodes with availability to accept children and with at least a specified link quality using the synchronized communications. The method can further include receiving, by the low-energy node, a selection-phase enhanced beacon from a TSCH node. The method can further include transmitting, by the low-energy node, an adoption request to the TSCH node. The method can further include receiving, by the low-energy node, an adoption response from the TSCH node indicating the TSCH node is managing the primary TSCH network join on behalf of the low-energy node.