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Patent No.:

US 9736771 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2015

Energy efficient management of heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks

Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Jianlin Guo, Newton, MA (US);

Kaikai Liu, Gainesville, FL (US);

Philip Orlik, Cambridge, MA (US);

Kieran Parsons, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Attorneys:

Gene Vinokur

James McAleenan

Hironori Tsukamoto

Primary Examiner:

Noel Beharry

Assistant Examiner:

Ruihua Zhang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04B 7/14 (2006.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 40/10 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0203 (2013.01); H04B 7/14 (2013.01); H04L 45/20 (2013.01); H04W 28/0221 (2013.01); H04W 40/10 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); H04W 52/0261 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless multi-hope network of nodes including data nodes and at least one sink node. The data nodes include battery-powered nodes (BPNs) having active and sleep periods and mains-powered nodes (MPNs) having only active periods, wherein each data node transmits the packets only within corresponding active periods. A BPN includes a transceiver for transmitting and receiving data packets and a processor for determining a schedule of active and sleep periods of the BPN independently from the active and sleep periods of other data nodes in the network and independently from commands transmitted by the sink node, and a battery for providing energy to the transceiver and the processor. The processor switches the transceiver ON and OFF according to the schedule.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Guo, Jianlin. (2017). Energy efficient management of heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks (U.S. Patent No. 9736771). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9736771

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