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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2011
A. Roger Hammons, Jr., North Potomac, MD (US);
A. Roger Hammons, Jr., North Potomac, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a system and method by which a network of directional, wireless nodes that are not fixed in space can be optimized by optimizing each node individually. The network does not have a central control node, so each node is responsible for optimizing its surrounding topology. This is accomplished by synthesizing incoming information from neighboring nodes and determining which nodes will provide the best connections based on specific utilities each node is attempting to optimize. Neighboring nodes then exchange messages to request, accept, or reject directional connections between them based on their preferred optimizations. The overall directional network topology is achieved by consensus driven by local preferences.