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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2017
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Anna Larmo, Espoo, FI;
Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Teramo, IT;
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method of updating a number of retransmissions for a mesh node in a mesh network comprising a plurality of mesh nodes, wherein said number of retransmissions define how often said mesh node retransmits received messages within said mesh network, said method comprising the steps of receiving, by said mesh node, a number of data messages, wherein each of said data messages originates from a same source mesh node and is intended for a same destination mesh node in said mesh network, transmitting, by said mesh node, each of said number of data messages based on said number of retransmissions receiving, by said mesh node, a number of acknowledgement messages, wherein each acknowledgement message originates from said RD mesh node and acknowledges receipt of a particular data message of said first number of data messages, and updating, by said mesh node, said number of retransmissions based on said number of data messages and based on said number of acknowledgement messages. Complementary devices for performing a method according to the invention are also presented herein.