Patent ID: 7388886

Claim:
A method for distributing communication signals, which comprises: providing an ad-hoc mesh network of communications coordinator devices each transmitting a beacon message in a transmission range defining a cluster area, defining a transmission region with a sum of all cluster areas, defining respective cluster overlap areas with neighboring coordinator devices in which overlap areas each beacon message of the neighboring coordinator devices is present; providing mobile communications nodes within the transmission region, the nodes defining at least one border node when at least one of the nodes is positioned in a cluster overlap area; detecting the at least one beacon message of the neighboring coordinator devices in a cluster overlap area with the at least one border node and determining, with the at least one border node, if an overlap warning condition exists for at least two of the neighboring coordinator devices; warning, with the at least one border node, at least one of the at least two neighboring coordinator devices of an existing overlap warning condition; and correcting the overlap warning condition of the at least two neighboring coordinator devices by adjusting a timing of the beacon message of the at least one neighboring coordinator device by a correction amount.