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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Siva Kupanna Subramani, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/2643 (2013.01); H04W 72/1226 (2013.01); H04W 72/1231 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A concentrator is configured to reschedule a TDMA mesh network in response to an interrupted transmission. The new schedule is calculated by selectively rescheduling transmissions that are scheduled in the same time slot as the interrupted transmission. Transmissions are selected to be rescheduled based on the proximity of the sector of the transmission to the sector of the interrupted transmission. The sectors of the mesh network are defined by neck nodes, where a neck node is a node that can communicate directly with the concentrator.