Patent ID: 8514861

Claim:
A method of communicating information among a group of nodes of a wireless network, the method comprising: selecting a transmission technique by a node of the group of nodes, wherein the selecting comprises determining transmission reliability of a first transmission technique and a second transmission technique, and selecting one of the first transmission technique and the second transmission technique that meets a required level of transmission reliability, wherein the first transmission technique comprises repeatedly broadcasting/multicasting the information to the group of nodes and the second transmission technique comprises unicasting the information to each node of the group; determining, by the node, a number of times to repeatedly broadcast/multicast the information when the first transmission technique is selected; transmitting, by the node, the information using the selected transmission technique; receiving the information at a plurality of other nodes of the group of nodes; and repeating the selecting, transmitting, receiving, and determining, by each of the plurality of other nodes that is an intermediate node.