TECHNIQUE FOR IMPLEMENTING A LATENCY SENSITIVE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL IN A WIRELESS MESH NETWORK

摘要

A wireless mesh network is configured to implement a latency-sensitive communication protocol in order to facilitate data communications between devices coupled to that network and configured to communicate with one another based on that protocol. Specifically, a node within the wireless mesh network receives a continuous stream of data that includes an N-bit sequence from an upstream device coupled to the wireless mesh network. The node transmits the N-bit sequence to a downstream node within the wireless mesh network. The downstream node re-creates the continuous stream of bits based on the received N-bit sequence, and then transmits the re-created continuous stream of bits to another device coupled to the wireless mesh network. By operating in conjunction with one another, the nodes within the wireless mesh network facilitate communication between the devices coupled to wireless mesh network according to the latency-sensitive communication protocol.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for transmitting data across a network according to a communication protocol, the method comprising:
receiving a first stream of bits from a first device that includes repeating instances of a first N-bit sequence, N being a positive integer; extracting the first N-bit sequence from the first stream of bits; and transmitting a first data packet that includes the first N-bit sequence to a node within the network that is coupled to a second device and is configured to transmit a second stream of bits to the second device that includes repeating instances of the first N-bit sequence.