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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for discovery of a set of nodes in a network. The method includes selecting a node amongst nodes in a group of nodes to be processed, implementing a discovery procedure for the selected node, including broadcasting a neighbor discovery request from a node currently selected on a shared transmission medium of the network, receiving at the node currently selected replies sent by neighbor nodes on the shared transmission medium and adding the neighbor nodes to the group of nodes to be processed and repeating the steps of selecting and instructing for other nodes in the group of nodes to be processed, until all nodes of the set are discovered. Implementing a link probing procedure after the discovery procedure, including sending one or more link probing messages for a measure of link quality and receiving replies comprising data related to the measure of link quality.