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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2007
Wenge Ren, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Amalavoyal Chari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cyrus Behroozi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Wenge Ren, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Amalavoyal Chari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cyrus Behroozi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tropos Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method of propagating a size of a cluster within a wireless mesh network is disclosed. The method includes a gateway within the cluster maintaining information of access nodes within the cluster. The gateway determines a cluster size based on the maintained information, and transmits routing packets that include the cluster size of the gateway. An apparatus and method of balancing clusters of a wireless mesh network is also disclosed. The method includes the gateway of each cluster originating beacons, wherein the beacons include a size of the cluster of the gateway. The access nodes of each cluster, re-broadcasts beacons received from the gateway of the cluster. A connecting access node selects which cluster to connect to at least in part based on the size of each of the clusters.