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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2000
Jason Keith Redi, Somerville, MA (US);
William Dugald Watson, Jr., Pepperell, MA (US);
Mitchell Paul Tasman, Boston, MA (US);
Jason Keith Redi, Somerville, MA (US);
William Dugald Watson, Jr., Pepperell, MA (US);
Mitchell Paul Tasman, Boston, MA (US);
BBNT Solutions LLC, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided to operate a communications node () in a network including a plurality of nodes. The communications node () includes a transceiver () to transmit and receive messages. The communications node () has at least one communications link with a first node of the plurality of nodes. The method includes the steps of: (i) determining path loss information across the at least one communications link by evaluating power data corresponding to a received signal from the first node; (ii) distributing the path loss information to the network; and (iii) routing messages to the network based on path loss information.