Patent ID: 9414296
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of discovery of a set of computer nodes in a computerized network, comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a computer node amongst computer nodes in a group of computer nodes to be processed; and (b) instructing to implement a discovery procedure for the selected computer node, said procedure comprising: (c) broadcasting a neighbor discovery request from a computer node currently selected on a shared transmission medium of the network; (d) receiving at the computer node currently selected replies sent by neighbor computer nodes on the shared transmission medium and adding said neighbor computer nodes to the group of computer nodes to be processed; (e) repeating steps (a) and (b) for other computer nodes in the group of computer nodes to be processed, until all computer nodes of the set are discovered; and (f) instructing to implement a link probing procedure for a selected computer node, said link probing procedure comprising sending from a computer node currently selected one or more link probing messages to neighbor computer nodes for subsequent measure of link quality, wherein sending preferably comprises broadcasting said one or more link probing messages on the shared transmission, and wherein implementation of the link probing procedure is interlaced with the discovery procedure, such that at least one of the replies received when implementing the discovery procedure for a selected computer node comprises data related to a measure of link quality between the computer node currently selected and a neighbor computer node.