METHOD FOR MANAGING POTENTIALLY DISRUPTIVE NODES IN A MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK
First Claim
1. A method for managing node communications in a mobile ad-hoc network, wherein at least a node in the said network performs the following steps:
- identifying if it is a Potentially Disruptive Node (PDN) or a non-PDN node, a PDN node being a node that has a number of connected 1-hop neighbouring nodes greater than a predetermined value K;
when the node is identified as a PDN node, selecting a subset of its 1-hop neighbour nodes, the selected nodes being the only 1-hop neighbour nodes that are allowed to communicate directly with the PDN node, the selected nodes being called Bridge Nodes (BN), non-BN nodes being called Regular Nodes (RN), the said RN nodes being able to communicate with PDN nodes via the selected BN nodes.
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Abstract
A method for managing node communications in a mobile ad-hoc network is provided where at least a node in the said network performs the following steps: identifying if it is a Potentially Disruptive Node (PDN) or a non-PDN node, a PDN node being a node that has a number of connected 1-hop neighbour nodes greater than a predetermined value K; when the node is identified as a PDN node, selecting a subset of its 1-hop neighbour nodes, the selected nodes being the only 1-hop neighbour nodes that are allowed to communicate directly with the PDN node, the selected nodes being called Bridge Nodes (BN), non-BN nodes being called Regular Nodes (RN), the said RN nodes being able to communicate with PDN nodes via the selected BN nodes.
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1. A method for managing node communications in a mobile ad-hoc network, wherein at least a node in the said network performs the following steps:
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identifying if it is a Potentially Disruptive Node (PDN) or a non-PDN node, a PDN node being a node that has a number of connected 1-hop neighbouring nodes greater than a predetermined value K; when the node is identified as a PDN node, selecting a subset of its 1-hop neighbour nodes, the selected nodes being the only 1-hop neighbour nodes that are allowed to communicate directly with the PDN node, the selected nodes being called Bridge Nodes (BN), non-BN nodes being called Regular Nodes (RN), the said RN nodes being able to communicate with PDN nodes via the selected BN nodes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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