Patent ID: 8331267
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for determining an optimal backbone for a robotic relay network, comprising: a robotic relay network comprising a plurality of nodes including a base station node, one or more mobile relay nodes, and one or more user nodes; a signal module to identify a signal strength value for each pair-wise communication link between each of the nodes; a weight module to apply a weight function to each communication link value to determine a communication link weight, wherein the weight function is applied according to one of the following equations: where w is the communication link weight, and v is the signal strength value; or where w is the communication link weight, v is the signal strength value, vc is a cutoff signal strength value threshold, vo is an optimal signal strength value, vm is a maximum signal strength value, and M=max(vo−vc, vm−vo); and a backbone module to determine an optimal backbone tree from the communication link weights.