Patent ID: 9281865
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H04B

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving one or more beacon requests at a device in a frequency hopping communication network; determining a number of received beacon requests within a given time period; adapting a type of responsive beacon message transmission based on the number of received beacon requests within the given time period, wherein the number being below a threshold results in synchronized unicast responsive beacon message transmission type, and wherein the number being above the threshold results in unsynchronized broadcast responsive beacon message transmission type; transmitting one or more responsive beacon messages from the device based on the type of responsive beacon message transmission, transmitting one or more unsolicited beacon messages from the device; and suppressing unsolicited beacon message transmission based on a density-aware redundancy count of other unsolicited beacon message transmissions from neighboring devices in the communication network.