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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2010
Applicants:
Chunjie Duan, Medfield, MA (US);
Jianlin Guo, Malden, MA (US);
Zhifeng Tao, Arlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/16 (2009.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wireless network with a star topology has a first and second central node. The first central node starts up first and initiates the network. The second central node starts up second and synchronizes to the first central node, and wherein one node is in active mode and the other node is in standby mode, and a set of leaf nodes configured to communicate only with the active node.