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Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2021
Applicant:

Landis+gyr Innovations, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Sean Holcombe, Roswell, GA (US);

Justin Clifford Matthews, Arncliffe, AU;

Assignee:

Landis+Gyr Innovations, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/04 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/04 (2013.01); H04L 5/0012 (2013.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01);
Abstract

A first node in a TSCH network may receive a message-initiation packet from a second node on the TSCH network. Based on information in the message-initiation packet, the first node may determine a transmission time for a message content packet that is associated with the message-initiation packet. The first node may generate or modify a node-specific transmission delay that indicates a backoff associated with the second node. The node-specific transmission delay may indicate a quantity of backoff time slots during which the first node delays initiating a transmission with the second node. If the first node receives, during the node-specific transmission delay, an additional packet intended for the second node, the first node may queue the additional packet until after the node-specific transmission delay is completed.


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