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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2001
Brig Barnum Elliott, Arlington, MA (US);
Warner George Harrison, Medfield, MA (US);
Brig Barnum Elliott, Arlington, MA (US);
Warner George Harrison, Medfield, MA (US);
BBN Technologies Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for performing neighbor discovery in a network () including a number of nodes are provided. A first node () in the network () generates a spread signal for alerting other nodes in the network () of the presence of the first node (). The first node (110) broadcasts the signal and a second node () receives the signal and calculates an energy associated with the received signal. The second node () also determines whether the energy is greater than a threshold and identifies the first node () as a neighbor node when the energy is greater than the threshold.