Patent ID: 11758506

Abstract:
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for node selection of wireless networks are disclosed. One method includes obtaining locations available for placing nodes, wherein each of the locations include three dimensions. For each pair of available locations, the method includes looking up two-dimensional locations of possible obstructions between the pair of available locations, identifying candidate obstructions from the possible obstructions based on two-dimensional locations of the possible obstructions and two-dimensional locations of the pair of available locations, estimating a reference height for a shortest distance between a segment between the pair of available locations and the three-dimensional location of each of the candidate obstructions, determining a distance between a point on the segment as defined by the reference height and the three-dimensional location of each of the possible obstructions, and identifying the pair of available locations as having a line-of-sight wireless link based the determined distance of each of the candidate obstructions.