Patent ID: 8194573
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for managing physical connectivity in a wireless directional network wherein the wireless directional network comprises a plurality of nodes each having radio communications equipment, and wherein one or more of the nodes is actively moving in three dimensions, the method comprising: linking two or more of the plurality of nodes together using the radio communications equipment to form a plurality of linked nodes having active links; determining positions and motion of each of the plurality of nodes; predicting outages for the active links using the positions and motion of each of the plurality of nodes; determining if the predicted outages will result in network fragmentation wherein there is no communications path between any node in a first set of the nodes and any node in a second set of the nodes; and if the predicted outages will result in network fragmentation, before the predicted outages occur: