DISTRIBUTED LOCAL AND WIDE AREA NETWORK INDEPENDENT OF CONNECTION MEDIA SUPPORTED IN NETWORKED DEVICES, AND MANAGED BY THE NETWORKED DEVICES

摘要

A dynamically configurable network has data stations (3-11) and wireless protocol stations (2). A wireless protocol station and at least one data station form a local area network. Separate local area networks are connected to each other through wireless protocol stations. The wireless protocol stations and the data stations have a physical layer protocol (80-87) that sits in a physical layer, whereby the wireless protocol station has all physical layer protocols of data stations to which it currently connected to, so as to dynamically support various media. The wireless protocol stations and the data stations further have service application layer protocols that sit in service layers (110-117), and a service access point protocol in between the service layer and the physical layer. A service application layer of a data station provides a data service. Data between data stations or between a data station and a wireless protocol station are physically exchanged via a communication link using the physical layer protocol. The data service is accessed through the service access point protocol.