Patent ID: 7869384
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A network address assignment method for a long thin ZigBee network, characterized by: each node of the long thin ZigBee network accepting a network address, wherein the network address is composed of a cluster ID and a node ID, the cluster ID and the node ID are numbers, the cluster ID is used for identifying a plurality of clusters of the long thin ZigBee network and for routing a packet among the clusters, the node ID is used for identifying a plurality of nodes of each said cluster and for routing the packet within each said cluster, the cluster IDs of all cluster headers of the long thin ZigBee network form a strictly increasing sequence or a strictly decreasing sequence, if the cluster IDs of the cluster headers form the strictly increasing sequence, the cluster IDs increase as distances between a coordinator of the long thin ZigBee network and the cluster headers corresponding to the cluster IDs increase, and if the cluster IDs of the cluster headers form the strictly decreasing sequence, the cluster IDs decrease as the distances between the coordinator and the cluster headers corresponding to the cluster IDs increase.