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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2000
Alok Aggarwal, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Manika Kapoor, Delhi, IN;
Abhinanda Sarkar, New Delhi, IN;
Lakshmi Ramachandran, New Delhi, IN;
Alok Aggarwal, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Manika Kapoor, Delhi, IN;
Abhinanda Sarkar, New Delhi, IN;
Lakshmi Ramachandran, New Delhi, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product for organizing a set of nodes into a minimum number of connected clusters of bounded size in a wireless transmission system, wherein the method comprises using of bits in packets used in the initial stages of the device discovery procedure, to include information relating to a state of device discovery to achieve the separation of the nodes into those in the transmit-state and the receive-state; defining a Master-designate among the nodes through a statistical procedure and defining remaining nodes as a Slave-designate; defining a cluster including the Master-designate and at least one the Slave-designate, wherein the Slave-designate continuously scans for the inquiry message transmitted from the Master-designate and the Slave-designate transmits the inquiry response to the Master-designate.