摘要 |
The disclosed embodiments of a media access control (MAC) scheme are devised to solve the hidden node problem for channel-hopping broadcast operations in wireless communication networks. The multi-channel broadcast MAC may be adapted to sense and hop around channel interference, and to perform concurrent sensing and load balancing across a set of channels. A multi-hop routing engine using this packet broadcast operator may allow a plurality of network nodes to organize themselves reliably into a communications network. By routing packets around the troubled areas, the routing engine may heal nodal and link failures. When a node changes location, the routing engine may reorganize the network topology automatically and restore the connectivity between communicating peers. |