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USING STATISTICAL AND HISTORICAL INFORMATION OF TOPOLOGY METRICS IN CONSTRAINED NETWORKS

  • US 20150023174A1
  • Filed: 07/22/2013
  • Published: 01/22/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • in a low power and lossy network (LLN) comprising a plurality of nodes, calculating a rate of change for parents of a node, the rate of change being a ratio of a number of changes in parent node observed for the node and a total number of observations of the node;

    calculating a parent preference for the node, the parent preference being a proportion of instances in which the node'"'"'s most frequent parent is observed for the node and a total number of observations of the node; and

    overriding a local next-hop algorithm for the node by selecting a parent node for the node based on at least one of the calculated rate of change for parents of the node and the calculated parent preference for the node.

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