Patent ID: 8712421
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: G01S,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for adding, by a computing device, one or more beacon nodes to a wireless network with a plurality of communication nodes, comprising: first selecting a grid location of a plurality of grid locations in the wireless network; determining an expected improvement to a location discovery error of a plurality of communication nodes in the wireless network in response to a beacon node being added to the grid location, repeating the first selecting and the determining for individual grid locations of at least a portion of the plurality of grid locations to determine expected improvement to location discovery errors corresponding to the individual grid locations of at least the portion of the plurality of grid locations; and second selecting one of the plurality of grid locations to add a new beacon node, based at least in part on the determined expected improvement to location discovery errors corresponding to the individual grid locations of at least the portion of the plurality of grid locations.