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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2015
Empire Technology Development Llc, Wilmington, DE;
Miodrag Potkonjak, Los Angeles, CA (US);
EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Techniques are generally described for determining locations of a plurality of communication devices in a network. In some examples, methods for creating a location discovery infrastructure (LDI) for estimating locations of one or more of a plurality of communication nodes may comprise one or more of determining a plurality of locations in the terrain to place a corresponding plurality of beacon nodes, determining a plurality of beacon node groups for the placed beacon nodes, and determining a schedule for the placed beacon nodes to be active. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed.