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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2012
Applicants:
Jianlin Guo, Newton, MA (US);
Chuan Han, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Ghulam M Bhatti, Mansfield, MA (US);
Philip Orlik, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Jianlin Guo, Newton, MA (US);
Chuan Han, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Ghulam M Bhatti, Mansfield, MA (US);
Philip Orlik, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Broken links in a sensor network are avoided by representing the network as a DODAG. A rank associated with each node defines a position of each node relative to other nodes, and the rank is in a form of a proper fraction, and the rank of each node never increases to enable loop-free routing.