Patent ID: 7610367
Filing Date: 2009-10-27
Classification: H04L,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A method of managing selected capabilities of an electronics communications network having a plurality of devices and network nodes interconnected by a set of undirected links, each link allowing information traffic of one or more specified media types, wherein a network node comprises one or more devices, the method comprising: (1) determining a role of each node in the communications network as either a centre node, a region member node, or a border node, and each border node as either a bridge node or a dangler node, by: (EVC) indices representing connectedness for each node of the network; (2) using the determined role of each node to manage any one or more of network robustness, network security, network communication efficiency, or control of spread of information through determined bridge nodes between network regions associated with the different centre nodes.