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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2007
Sung Park, Irvine, CA (US);
Darryn A. Johnnie, Brea, CA (US);
Michael A. Born, Los Alamitos, CA (US);
Colleen M. Touchard, Corona, CA (US);
Keith C. Buerger, Fullerton, CA (US);
Tyler J. Ulinskas, San Diego, CA (US);
Sung Park, Irvine, CA (US);
Darryn A. Johnnie, Brea, CA (US);
Michael A. Born, Los Alamitos, CA (US);
Colleen M. Touchard, Corona, CA (US);
Keith C. Buerger, Fullerton, CA (US);
Tyler J. Ulinskas, San Diego, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, a method to schedule network communications includes transmitting a node identification associated with a first node joining a network over a first portion of control timeslots based on a first probability, detecting nodes in the network using a second portion of the control timeslots and receiving acknowledgments from at least one of the nodes in the network. The method also includes that if a ratio of a number of acknowledgments received to a number of the nodes in the network detected is greater than a predetermined percentage: transmitting control data over the first portion of the control timeslots based on a second probability associated with a number of the nodes detected and transmitting data over the second portion of the control timeslots based on a network schedule.