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Apparatus, method, and medium for self-organizing multi-hop wireless access networks

  • US 20050152305A1
  • Filed: 08/31/2004
  • Published: 07/14/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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33. A method of wireless computer network in communication with mobile client computing devices comprising client wireless devices, the method of the wireless computer network comprising:

  • providing, by a wireless backbone network, a wireless networking service to the mobile client computing devices, comprising;

    providing, by portable wireless network node devices of the wireless backbone network, wireless local access service to the mobile client computing devices in their respective coverage areas, providing the wireless networking service to forward and deliver communication data of the mobile client computing devices on the wireless backbone network in a multi-hop manner to other of the mobile client computing devices or to other networks in communication with the wireless computer network, performing routing, by one or more of the portable wireless network node devices, storing, by the one or more of the portable wireless network node devices, a routing table comprising first data of subnet routes of wireless network layer addresses for the mobile client computing devices and portable wireless network node devices, and second data of subnet routes to gateways for external network addresses and per-host routes of network layer addresses for the mobile client computing devices that have roamed from their initial access service network node coverage area, and per-host routes of link layer addresses for the mobile client computing devices and portable wireless network node devices, and authenticating, by a backbone network node configured as a master authenticator node and another backbone node configured as an authentication server, an unauthenticated new network node to the backbone network with the assistance of another backbone node configured as a proxy authenticator node for the unauthenticated new network node.

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