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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2020
Applicant:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Richard P. Welle, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/145 (2013.01); H04L 41/0654 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communications network comprising of n-hop local neighborhoods. The network includes a plurality of communication nodes and a plurality of local neighborhoods wherein each local neighborhood includes a central node around which the local neighborhood is defined. The network also includes a subset of the plurality of nodes located within the local neighborhoods of each of the central nodes. Each of the subset of the plurality of nodes in a local neighborhood is not more than n hops away over currently existing links from the central node of the local neighborhood.