Patent ID: 8040823

Claim:
A method for transmitting data in a network having a plurality of communication nodes, the nodes functioning as transmission nodes and receiving nodes, the method comprising: assigning a node ID for a receiving node in a transmission-receiving group, among the plurality of communication nodes, by an N-carry operation of a determined number N; and transmitting data from at least one transmission node in the transmission-receiving group to at least one receiving node in the transmission-receiving group by utilizing the node ID, wherein the N-carry operation is based on a polynomial that includes a multiplication of an exponential value based on the determined number N and each one of a set of identifications of receiving nodes along a transmission-receiving path, the set of identifications each being one of an intra-level sequential identifier and a parent node intra-level sequential identifier, the transmission-receiving path being from a first receiving level of a first level transmission node to the receiving node for which the node ID is assigned.