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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2020
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Xiaoyi Wang, Austin, TX (US);
Thomas Novlan, Austin, TX (US);
Andrew Thornburg, Austin, TX (US);
Milap Majmundar, Austin, TX (US);
Arunabha Ghosh, Austin, TX (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
The described technology is generally directed towards an autonomous topology management scheme in a wireless communications network that establishes a hierarchical structure from a peer-to-peer network without assistance from the wireless network. A group of user equipments negotiate with each other to elect a local manager that acts as a base station by which other user equipments of the group can access network resources. Described is an example voting scheme by which the negotiation process elects the local manager for a term.