SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS MESH NETWORK COMMUNICATION

摘要

A general wireless mesh network of communication devices with packet message transmission, especially for telemetry and automation, includes at least a single control communication device and a set of slave communication devices. The control communication device searches in the network and assigns a virtual routing number to each slave communication device. The virtual routing number reflects a distance of the slave communication device from the control communication device, expressed by the number of routings, and is stored in the slave communication device. The slave communication device, for further routing of packets in the mesh network, uses time slots assigned according to the difference between said virtual routing number and the virtual routing number of the sender of a received packet. Packet routing is based on successive flooding of the virtual routing structure and time division multiplexing.

主权项

1. A method for routing transmissions within a wireless mesh network comprising a plurality of communication devices including a control communication device and a plurality of slave communication devices, the method comprising:
assigning a unique virtual routing number to each of a subset of the plurality of communication devices; and routing a transmission of data between two of the communication devices through one or more of the slave communication devices, wherein each of the one or more slave communication devices:
receives a wireless transmission of the data from another of the communication devices, the wireless transmission containing a virtual routing number of the other communication device,determines a difference between the virtual routing number of the other communication device and the virtual routing number assigned to the slave communication device, andretransmits the data in an assigned time slot by waiting for a delay based on the determined difference.