MESH NETWORK TRANSMISSION DECISIONS BASED ON NODE PERFORMANCE METRICS

• US 20160105345A1
• Filed: 10/31/2014
• Published: 04/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Belkin International Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Belkin International Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kim, Ryan Yong, Pathuri, Venkata Subba Rao, Sidhu, Gursharan, Schneider, Aaron, Knopf, Brian
• Granted Patent: US 9,819,556 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/065 related to network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0847 Transmission error
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0852 Delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/14 Routing performance; Theoretical aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/70 Routing based on monitoring results
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/12 based on transmission quality or channel quality

Abstract

Systems and methods for transmission of data through mesh networks are disclosed. Specifically, various techniques and systems are provided for using performance metrics of nodes in a mesh network to make data transmission decisions. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include a computer-implemented method. The method comprises receiving, at a network device on a network, performance metrics associated with an additional network device on the network; generating performance metrics associated with the network device; storing the performance metrics associated with the network device and the performance metrics associated with the additional network device; and transmitting the performance metrics associated with the network device and the performance metrics associated with an additional network device, wherein when the performance metrics are received, the performance metrics are used to determine whether data will be transmitted to the network device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, at a network device on a network, current performance metrics associated with an additional network device on the network;

generating a beacon packet including data associated with the network;

generating current performance metrics associated with the network device;

embedding the current performance metrics associated with the network device and the current performance metrics associated with the additional network device within the beacon packet; and

transmitting the beacon packet on the network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the current performance metrics are continually stored and updated.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the current performance metrics associated with the network device and the current performance metrics associated with the additional network device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the current performance metrics associated with the network device include reliability metrics.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the current performance metrics associated with the network device include latency metrics.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein embedding the current performance metrics associated with the network device within the beacon packet includes embedding the current performance metrics associated with the network device within a frame body of the beacon packet.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a request for updated performance metrics associated with the additional network device; and

receiving a beacon packet, wherein the beacon packet includes updated performance metrics associated with the additional network device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the received beacon packet includes updated performance metrics associated with the network device and updated performance metrics associated with the additional network device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating, at the network device on a network, a setup access point connected to the network device; and

transmitting, by the setup access point, the beacon packet embedded with the performance metrics associated with the network device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein when the beacon packet is transmitted on the network, the beacon packet is receivable by one or more of the additional network devices.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transmitting a communication including information associated with the location of the performance metrics within the beacon packet.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting multiple beacon packets on the network, wherein each of the multiple beacon packets includes a portion of the current performance metrics associated with the network device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the multiple beacon packets are consecutively transmitted on the network.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the beacon packet is configured to collect and store data from multiple network devices on the network.

15. A computing device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to perform operations including;

receiving, at a network device on a network, current performance metrics associated with an additional network device on the network;

generating a beacon packet including data associated with the network;

generating current performance metrics associated with the network device;

embedding the current performance metrics associated with the network device and the current performance metrics associated with the additional network device within the beacon packet; and

transmitting the beacon packet on the network.

16. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the current performance metrics are continually stored and updated.

17. The computing device of claim 15, further comprising instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to perform operations including:

storing the current performance metrics associated with the network device and the current performance metrics associated with the additional network device.

18. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the current performance metrics associated with the network device include reliability metrics.

19. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the current performance metrics associated with the network device include latency metrics.

20. The computing device of claim 15, wherein embedding the current performance metrics associated with the network device within the beacon packet includes embedding the current performance metrics associated with the network device within a frame body of the beacon packet.

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