Method of establishing radio communication networks and radio communication system

• US 20050266827A1
• Filed: 12/10/2002
• Published: 12/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Myun-Sik Kim
• Original Assignee: Myun-Sik Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Myun-Sik
• Application Number:
  US10/497,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20050266827A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A method of establishing a wireless communication network constituted by moving communication terminals and a wireless communication system are provided. The wireless communication system includes a manager terminal receiving a password from a user, authorizing the received password, and setting a central or local server point, and a plurality of communication terminals receiving the central or local server point from the manager terminal and storing the received central or local server point. Accordingly, it is possible to provide, without establishing a physically fixed relay base station or an access point, the same effect as that of establishing a relay station for a moving communication terminal.

Claims

1. A method of establishing a wireless communication network, comprising:

(a) determining a manager terminal, which selects central and local servers from among a plurality of communication terminals and receives and manages location information of each of the communication terminals;

(b) setting a central or local server point using the manager terminal; and

(c) determining a communication terminal closest to the central or local server point as a central or local server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein step (a) comprises:

(a1) authorizing a first password input from a user;

(a2) checking whether or not there exists a second communication terminal, which has already been set as a manager terminal, among communication terminals belonging to the same communication group as a first communication terminal which is determined as the manager terminal, if the first password is correct;

(a3) receiving a second password from the user and authorizing the second password if there exists the second communication terminal; and

(a4) transmitting a command to cancel setting of the second communication terminal as a manager terminal to the second communication terminal and then modifying the first communication terminal'"'"'s role information to be compatible with its new role as a manager terminal role if the second password is correct.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein if the first or second password received from the user in step (a1) or (a3) is incorrect, step (a) is completed.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein if it turns out in step (a2) that the second communication terminal does not exist, role information of the first communication terminal is modified in step (a3) instead of transmitting the command to cancel setting of the second communication terminal as a manager terminal so that the first communication terminal can serve as a manager terminal.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) comprises:

(b1) transmitting information on the central or local server point to each of the communications terminals;

(b2) checking whether the central or local server point information is transmitted from the manager terminal; and

(b3) storing the received central or local server point information if it is verified that the manager terminal transmits the central or local server point information.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

(d) setting a fourth communication terminal, which is located closer than a third communication terminal currently serving as the central or local server to the central or local server point, as the central or local server.

7. A method of determining a relay server of a wireless communication network, comprising:

(a) a first communication terminal obtaining its location coordinate values, receiving information on a central or local server point from a manager terminal which sets the central or local server point, and managing location information of each communication terminal;

(b) the first communication terminal transmitting its location information and role information to neighboring communication terminals;

(c) the first communication terminal receiving and storing location information and role information of the neighboring communication terminals;

(d) the first communication terminal determining whether or not a communication terminal set as a central server exists among the neighboring communication terminals by analyzing the role information of the neighboring communication terminals;

(e) the first communication terminal figuring out how far it is away from the central server point based upon its own location information and the location information of the neighboring communication terminal if there is no communication terminal set as a central server; and

(f) the first communication terminal setting itself as a central server if it turns out to be located closest to the central server point.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

(g) the first communication terminal selecting communication terminals belonging to the same communication region as it does from other communications terminals;

(h) the first communication terminal determining whether or not a communication terminal currently serving as a local server exists among the selected communication terminals;

(i) the first communication terminal figuring out how far it is from the local server point based upon its own location information and the location information of other communication terminal if there is no communication terminal currently serving as a local server; and

(j) the first communication terminal setting itself as a local server if it turns out to be located closest to the local server point,

if it turns out in step (e) that there exists a communication terminal currently serving as a central server or if it turns out in step (e that there exists a communications terminal located closer than the first communication terminal to the central server point.

14. A computer-readable recording medium, on which a program enabling the method of claim 7 is recorded.

9. A method of replacing a relay server with another relay server over a wireless communication network, comprising:

(a) a communication terminal currently serving as a central or local server receiving location information from other communication terminals;

(b) the communication terminal checking if there exists among other communication terminals a first communication terminal located closer than it is to a central or local server point by analyzing the location information of other communication terminals;

(c) the communication terminal transmitting a server setting command to set the first communication terminal as a new central or local server and server management information that it has managed to the first communication terminal and canceling information used for setting the communication terminal as a central or local server; and

(d) the first communication terminal modifying its role information in response to the server setting command so that it can be set as a central or local server and storing the received server management information.

10. A communication method, comprising:

(a) receiving location information of other communication terminals and storing the location information in a database;

(b) searching the database for location information of a receiving terminal, which is a destination of data;

(c) checking if a predetermined reference period of time has passed since, among the search results, most recent location information was recorded; and

(d) transmitting the data to the receiving terminal based upon the most recent location information,

if the predetermined reference period of time has not yet passed since the most recent location information was recorded.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

(e) transmitting the data to a central server;

(f) searching a terminal information table of the central server for the location information of the receiving terminal; and

(g) the central server transmitting the data to a local server serving the searched location of the receiving terminal, if no search result has been obtained in step (b).

12. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

(h) searching the database for location information of the receiving terminal, which had been recorded directly before the most recent location information was recorded;

(i) estimating location of the receiving terminal using the most recent location information and the previous location information; and

(j) transmitting the data to a local server serving the estimated location of the receiving terminal,

if the predetermined reference period of time has already passed since the most recent location information was recorded.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

(k) transmitting the data to the central server;

(l) searching the terminal information table of the central server for location information of the receiving terminal; and

(m) transmitting the data from the central server to a local server serving the searched location of the receiving terminal,

if no search result has been obtained in step (h).

15. A wireless communication system comprising:

a manager terminal receiving a password from a user, authorizing the received password, and setting a central or local server point; and

a plurality of communication terminals receiving the central or local server point from the manager terminal and storing the received central or local server point,

wherein among the plurality of communication terminals, a communication terminal located closest to the central or local server point is set as a central or local server terminal performing a communication relay function.

16. A wireless communication terminal, comprising:

a transmission and receiving unit receiving point information including location information of neighboring communication terminals, and information on a central or local server point, and transmitting location information of the corresponding wireless communication terminal and data received from a user;

a neighboring terminal information management unit storing the received location information of the neighboring communication terminals;

a basic setting information management unit managing information on a communication terminal set as a central or local server terminal using role information of the wireless communication terminal, and the central or local server point information;

a relay server setting unit setting the central or local server terminal based upon the central or local server point information;

a data transmission control unit estimating location of a receiving terminal, which is a destination of data, and setting up a transmission path for transmitting the data received from the user to the receiving terminal; and

an input and output unit outputting data received from the neighboring communication terminals and receiving data to be transmitted from the user.

17. A computer-readable recording medium having a data structure comprising:

a native code field where a unique code allotted to a communication terminal is recorded;

a role information field where information on a role of the communication terminal over a communication network is recorded;

a point information field where information on a central or local server point used to set location of a central or local server over the communication network is recorded; and

a data field where central or local server terminal information including a native code and location information of a communication terminal located closest to the central or local server point is recorded.