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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2018
Synapse Wireless, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Eric Joseph Ibarra, Madison, AL (US);
Synapse Wireless, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
A wireless network has a transmitting node that can send a multicast message over the wireless network to a plurality of receiving nodes. Each of the receiving nodes, on receipt of the multicast message, can estimate, based on the receipt of the multicast message, a distance between the transmitting node and the receiving node. If the distance is within a certain distance range from the transmitting node, the receiving node implements a delay of a predetermined amount of time before retransmitting the message to its neighboring nodes. If the distance is beyond that range, the message is retransmitted without delay. All nodes within the distance range implement the same delay before retransmission, however, they may also implement an additional, randomized delay to allow nodes to transmit in several discrete time slots, thereby avoiding or minimizing data collisions with other nodes' transmissions of the message.