Hierarchical mesh network for wireless access

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2009-08-13

2011-12-13

Phunkulh, Bob (Department: 2477)

Multiplex communications

Communication over free space

Having a plurality of contiguous regions served by...

C370S255000, C370S401000, C455S453000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08077663

ABSTRACT:
A wireless mesh network is configured as a multiple-level hierarchical network, with each level of the hierarchy having a plurality of nodes. Several clusters of nodes each acting as access points may be organized in numerous first-level meshes, with each of the first-level meshes being coupled to a second-level mesh having nodes that act as gateways to the first-level meshes. The number of nodes in each of the first-level and second-level meshes may be limited to a predetermined number of nodes during configuration in order to improve the performance of the mesh network.

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