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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
May. 01, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Bin He, Shanghai, CN;
Wenlei Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Zhen Jia, Shanghai, CN;
George M. Ericson, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to generate a link-local network address for a given network node in a device-to-device communication network based on a unique identifier associated with the given network node. The processing device is also configured to determine at least one measure of radio access network signal strength for the given network node for at least one corresponding radio access network, and to assign one of a first and a second communication role in the device-to-device communication network to the given network node based at least in part on whether the at least one measure of the radio access network signal strength is above or below a designated threshold. The processing device is further configured to exchange data traffic between the given network node and the external data network based on which of the first and second communication roles is assigned to the given network node.