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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2008
Wallace A. Pratt, Jr., Pflugerville, TX (US);
Mark J. Nixon, Round Rock, TX (US);
Eric D. Rotvold, West St. Paul, MN (US);
Robin S. Pramanik, Karlsruhe, DE;
Tomas P. Lennvall, Vasteras, SE;
Terrence L. Blevins, Round Rock, TX (US);
Wallace A. Pratt, Jr., Pflugerville, TX (US);
Mark J. Nixon, Round Rock, TX (US);
Eric D. Rotvold, West St. Paul, MN (US);
Robin S. Pramanik, Karlsruhe, DE;
Tomas P. Lennvall, Vasteras, SE;
Terrence L. Blevins, Round Rock, TX (US);
Hart Communication Foundation, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of adaptively scheduling communications in a wireless mesh network including a plurality of network nodes includes generating a network routing scheme based on a topology of the wireless mesh network, generating a communication schedule for the wireless mesh network, and automatically updating the communication schedule in response to detecting a change in a transmission requirement of at least one of the plurality of network nodes. The act of generating a communication schedule includes defining a communication timeslot of a predefined duration and defining a plurality of superframes as repeating cycles of a certain number of consecutively scheduled communication timeslots.