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Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 05, 2020
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 84/20 (2009.01); H04L 45/028 (2022.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 84/20 (2013.01); H04L 45/028 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 76/14 (2018.02);
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.


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