Message routing in a radio network

摘要

A method for routing messages ( 80 ) having a short routing indicator across linked master/slave configured piconets ( 10,20,30 ). Each piconet stores a routing table ( 62 ) and at each hop a receiving master node ( 22 ) performs a reception algorithm ( 110 ) on the routing indicator, the result enabling the receiving node to identify a target node and whether that node is local to the receiving piconet or a node accessible through a piconet with which the receiving piconet is linked. In the latter instance, the receiving node performs a transmission rule ( 120 ) on the result to generate a new routing indicator which is then transmitted with the message to the identified piconet.