Patent ID: 8340008

Claim:
A network comprising: a plurality of logical access entities, each access entity including two or more communication interfaces; and a plurality of logical node entities, each logical node entity including two or more communication interfaces configured to wirelessly communicate in a redundant manner with any of said logical access entities; wherein non-overlapping communication channels are established along redundant communication paths among the two or more logical access entities and the two or more logical node entities using the two or more communication interfaces of the logical access entities and the two or more communication interfaces of the logical node entities; wherein said two or more communication interfaces comprise wireless interface cards; and wherein said redundant wireless communication paths are selected as a function of communication signal parameters, said communication signal parameters including one or more of a signal to noise ratio, a received signal strength, network traffic density, and an acknowledgment of a failure; and wherein said redundant wireless communication paths are selected as a function of availability of one or more synchronization signals transmitted from one or more logical access entities.