Patent ID: 8879604
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: H04B,H04H,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: generating a rendezvous request message, the rendezvous request message specifying a channel C and a rendezvous time T for which a distributed message is to be transmitted in a frequency-hopping computer network, and a priority indicating the importance of the distributed message to be transmitted on channel C at time T, wherein the computer network operates with one or more broadcast timeslots in a frequency-hopping sequence; comparing a) transmission overhead and latency associated with transmitting the rendezvous request message, to b) waiting for a subsequent broadcast timeslot; determining, based on the comparison, if it is worth waiting for the subsequent broadcast timeslot to transmit the distributed message; in response to the determining that it is not worth waiting for the subsequent broadcast timeslot, in response to the determining that it is worth waiting for the subsequent broadcast timeslot,