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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2014
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Karthik Yogeeswaran, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ali Yazdan Panah, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yael Maguire, Boston, MA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Various of the disclosed embodiments relate to line-of-sight (LOS), e.g., optical, based networks. Systems and methods are provided for connecting nodes based on their topological position in a line-of-sight communication network. Some embodiments may represent each node by a 'backbone' and a 'subnetwork' rank. The determination of a node's rank can prevent the formation of isolated “islands” of nodes, cut off from the backbone. The ranking can also provide a total ordering of nodes relative to the “fiberpop” node which can be used for healing and routing behaviors.