Ad hoc wireless communications network with node role information routing and associated methods

摘要

An ad hoc wireless communications network includes wireless nodes arranged in a backbone net and stub nets coupled to the backbone net via respective wireless nodes defining gateway nodes. A method for the network includes transmitting node role information from each gateway node to respective wireless nodes within each stub net. The node role information includes node reactive routing directions for establishing a route outside of a given stub net. A route request is unicast transmitted from a first wireless node in a respective first stub net to a respective first gateway node based upon the node role information. The route request is a request to communicate to a second wireless node in a respective second stub net. The route request is transmitted from the first gateway node across the backbone net to the second gateway node of the second stub net.

主权项

1. A communications method for an ad hoc wireless communications network, the method comprising:
transmitting within the ad hoc wireless communications network comprising a plurality of wireless nodes arranged in a backbone net and a plurality of stub nets coupled to the backbone net via respective wireless nodes defining gateway nodes, and with each stub net further comprising a plurality of wireless nodes, node role information from each gateway node to respective wireless nodes within each stub net, with the node role information being relayed between the plurality of wireless nodes within each stub net, and with the node role information including node reactive routing directions for establishing a route outside of a given stub net, with the node role information being proactively transmitted from each gateway node to the respective wireless nodes within each stub net; unicast transmitting within the ad hoc wireless communications network a route request from a first wireless node in a respective first stub net to a respective first gateway node based upon the node role information, the route request being a request to communicate to a second wireless node in a respective second stub net; and transmitting within the ad hoc wireless communications network the route request from the first gateway node across the backbone net to the second gateway node of the second stub net.