Patent ID: 9282504
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: performing, by a power line communication (PLC) device, active discovering of a plurality of neighboring nodes; sending a broadcast beacon request frame; receiving a plurality of beacon frames from a plurality of beacon senders from the a plurality of neighboring nodes with a respective personal area network (PAN) identifier from the beacon sender; identifying a list of beacon senders as bootstrapping agents and a personal area network (PAN) identifier for one or more networks operating within a personal operating space of the PLC device; identifying a target network to join, the target network having a target PAN identifier; selecting one of the beacon senders as a target bootstrapping agent to use for a join process with the target network, the target bootstrapping agent selected from a list of bootstrapping agents associated with the target PAN identifier; and attempting to join the target network using the target bootstrapping agent.