Method and apparatus for a wireless home mesh network with network topology visualizer

摘要

An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include collecting node topology information by a node of a wireless home mesh network, where the node topology information includes a list of neighbor nodes for the node. Thereafter, a communication socket is opened, and a node topology packet, including a lust of neighbor nodes, is transmitted in order to produce a global network topology map. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; at least one computer readable medium accessible to the processor to configure the processor for: exchanging one or more messages to discover a topology of a wireless home mesh network including mobile nodes and at least one stationary node; determining whether a node topology packet has been received from each node of the wireless home mesh network, a node topology packet including local neighbors of a mesh node sending the node topology packet; filtering the node topology packets according to a route table of a display node, node topology packets whose entries are not present in the route table of the display node being deleted; using each of the node topology packets to create a visualizer file readable by a mesh visualizer tool, node connectivity information including local neighbors of a node being compiled as node topology packets are received from each node of the network to establish a global network topology map of the network; presenting an interactive mesh topology map based on the global network topology map, a display window being reset while nodes and connections are deleted according to a local list, the mesh topology map being gradually increased as further neighbors of the display node, as well as remote nodes, are added to network topology; determining whether a detected node is detected for a first time; and responsive to detecting a detected node for the first time, assigning coordinates to the detected node according to the discovery of a first neighbor for the detected node.