Patent ID: 9301158
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A device in an ad hoc wireless communication network configured to generate a signal strength threshold, the device comprising: a receiver configured to receive messages from other devices in the wireless communication network, the receiver being further configured to determine a number of other devices that sent messages; a processor configured to determine an average signal strength of the messages from the respective other devices and to identify the signal strength threshold to be used to determine a branch device, wherein the signal strength threshold is identified based, at least in part, on identifying the signal strength threshold that is larger than the average signal strength of the messages from a subset of the respective other devices, the processor being further configured to determine the subset of the respective other devices based on the number of other devices that sent messages, and wherein each of the respective other devices is eligible to be determined as the branch device if a signal strength associated with the respective other device is less than the signal strength threshold; and a transmitter configured to transmit the signal strength threshold to the other devices in the wireless communication network.