Patent ID: 8630275

Claim:
A wireless computer network, wherein a wireless backbone network which includes a plurality of wireless network node devices the wireless computer network comprising: at least one wireless network node device configured to provide wireless local access service to mobile client computer devices in corresponding coverage areas, operate as proxy authentication nodes, and forward and deliver communication data of mobile client computer devices in a multihop fashion the wireless computer network; at least one first new wireless network node device which newly joins as part of said wireless backbone network enabled to act as a supplicant to request authentication from said wireless backbone network prior to becoming part of said wireless backbone network; and a wireless network node device among any of the wireless network node devices configured to authenticate the at least one first new wireless network node device by operating as a proxy authentication node and communicate with the at least one wireless network node device operating as a master authentication node; where said at least one first new wireless network node device initiates a wireless local access service within a corresponding of the coverage areas using a key for joining said wireless backbone network provided after completion of authentication, and said at least one first new wireless network node device operates as the proxy authentication node to authenticate other second new wireless network node devices to said wireless backbone network in accordance with a topology of the wireless computer network updated through communication among the wireless network node devices after completion of the authentication of said at least one first new wireless network node device which newly joins as part of said wireless backbone network.