Rapidly deployable ad hoc network
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Abstract
The present invention shows, among other things, how to build rapidly deployable ad hoc networks from a combination of wired communications components with wireless communication components. The resulting kind of network is entirely novel and has a number of advantages over existing wireless-only techniques. Namely, it combines automatic robustness in the face of errors and network destruction with the high speed and great resistance to jamming of wired network.
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30 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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12. A system comprising:
a rapidly deployable network, configured for deployment from a moving vehicle, including a plurality of wired links connecting some of a plurality of transceivers to facilitate communication between the transceivers connected by the wired links, wherein the plurality of transceivers are configured for wireless communication to facilitate communication, via wireless links, between transceivers connected to different ones of the plurality of wired links; and
a router configured to dynamically determines a path selected from the wired links and the wireless links to communicate packets between transceivers connected to different ones of the plurality of wired links. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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13. A method for communicating packets comprising:
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deploying a rapidly deployable network including a plurality of transceivers by;
providing a first wired link between a first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers and a second transceiver of the plurality of transceivers;
providing a wireless link between the second transceiver of the plurality of transceivers and a third transceiver of the plurality of transceivers connected to a second wired link at a first location on the second wired link to facilitate communication between the first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers and a fourth transceiver of the plurality of transceivers connected to the second wired link at a second location on the second wired link, and employing a routing protocol to dynamically determines a path through the rapidly deployable network to communicate packets among the plurality of transceivers. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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27. A system comprising:
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means for specifying a missile destination; and
means for launching a missile traveling substantially toward the missile destination, wherein the missile is connected to a wired link and communication between devices is facilitated via the wired link after the missile and a transceiver connected to the wired link has been launched. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
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30. A method of creating a network comprising:
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deploying first and second physically disconnected wired links across a landscape from a moving vehicle, wherein at least two transceivers configured for wired and wireless communication are communicatively coupled along each of the first and second physically disconnected wired links prior to deployment of the wired links;
forming a wireless communication link from one of the at least two transceivers coupled to the first physically disconnected wired link to one of the at least two transceivers coupled to the second physically disconnected wired link; and
determining communication paths between a plurality of devices, wherein the communications paths include the wireless communication link and at least portions of the first and second physically disconnected wired links.
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Specification