Patent ID: 7848262

Claim:
A method of managing an ad hoc communications network, said method comprising the steps of: a) locating a plurality of nodes within a coverage area; b) selecting at least one of said plurality of nodes within at least one group said plurality of nodes as a healing node, each of said healing node being relocatable within a corresponding said group; c) locating each said healing node at a location; d) training said healing nodes to selectively reconnect to at least one other said group whenever a connection to other said nodes of at least one other said group is lost; wherein the training is unsupervised and recursively constructs a map of healing nodes (Φ) and ψ in Euclidean (R 3 ) space for the coverage area and has the form Φ:R 3 →D⊂R 3 and ψ:D→R 3 ; and e) relocating each said healing node at said location.