Patent ID: 7583641

Claim:
A method for transmitting network joining message packets from a network device during control slots of a time division multiple access (TDMA) frame sequence, said method comprising: determining a size of the network joining packet to be processed for transmission; recognizing which slots of the TDMA frame sequence are control slots; subdividing the control slots based on at least one of the size of the network joining packet and a data rate of a control slot queue; associating a line of sight azimuth, an elevation, and a range with a first network joining message packet; incrementing at least one of the line of sight azimuth, the elevation, and the transmission range for association with each subsequent network joining message packet; and transmitting, from the network device, a number of the network joining message packets during the control slot of the TDMA frame sequence, the number of network joining message packets transmitted based on the subdivision of the control slots.