Patent ID: 11950324
Assignee: ITRON, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A network device comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors causes the network device to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a second network device in a mesh network, a first message;
extracting an information element from the first message that identifies a set of communication modes supported by the second network device;
determining a common set of communication modes based on the set of communication modes supported by the second network device and a set of communication modes supported by the network device;
in response to determining that a first metric value calculated for a first communication mode in the set of common communication modes is lower than a second metric calculated for a default communication mode by a threshold value, selecting the first communication mode from the set of common communication modes; and
configuring a communication link between the network device and the second network device according to the first communication mode.