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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2023
Filed:
May. 12, 2021
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Imad Jamil, Beynes, FR;
Keith Wayne Barnes, Waseca, MN (US);
Fabrice Monier, Pry sur Marne, FR;
Thomas F. Uhling, Spokane Valley, WA (US);
ITRON, INC., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Abstract
In various embodiments, a system within a wireless network comprises a set of battery-powered device (BPD) nodes within the wireless network, and a joining BPD node that identifies, in a subset of BPD nodes, a set of potential parent nodes, filters the set of BPD nodes based on network optimization criteria to identify a target parent node, and transmits a request message to establish a communications link with the target parent node as a child node, where the target parent node in the set of BPD nodes executes instructions to receive the request message from the joining BPD node, evaluate data associated with the joining BPD node with acceptance criteria, and upon determining that the joining BPD node meets the acceptance criteria, establish the communications link with the joining BPD node, where, upon the communications link being established, the joining BPD node is a child to the target parent node.