Patent ID: 9686792
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: in a particular node of a plurality of nodes operating as a wireless mesh network, discovering ones of the plurality of nodes that are potentially reachable neighbors of the particular node, wherein each of the plurality of nodes has at least one radio and the discovering is via the at least one radio of the particular node, each of the potentially reachable neighbors is within a single radio hop of the particular node, each of the radios is tunable to operate on a corresponding assigned one of a plurality of channels, and the assigned channels are determined based at least in part on the discovering; in response to the assigned channels, tuning the at least one radio of the particular node to operate on a particular one of the plurality of channels; and in response to disconnection of the particular node from the wireless mesh network, tuning the at least one radio of the particular node to operate on the assigned channel corresponding to the at least one radio of at least a selected one of the potentially reachable neighbors, and wherein the discovering is before the disconnection.