SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A NETWORK OF MOVING THINGS

• US 20170289941A1
• Filed: 06/19/2017
• Published: 10/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veniam Inc.
• Original Assignee: Veniam Inc.
• Inventors: Ameixiera, Carlos
• Granted Patent: US 10,122,572 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/048 mobile agents
• 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 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/244 using a network of reference devices, e.g. beaconing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/10 using broadcasted information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0025 synchronizing potentially movable access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 Moving wireless networks

Abstract

Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things).

Claims

1-26. -26. (canceled)

27. A communication network node comprising:

at least one module comprising a processing circuit and a memory and being operable to, at least;

transmit a beacon message in accordance with a defined beaconing strategy;

receive context information comprising one or both of;

information identifying physical context, and information identifying communication condition context;

analyze the received context information;

redefine the beaconing strategy, based at least in part on the analyzed received context information; and

transmit a beacon message in accordance with the redefined beaconing strategy.

28. The communication network node of claim 27, wherein the context information comprises one or both of:

information identifying physical context of the node; and

information identifying communication condition context of the node.

29. The communication network node of claim 27, wherein the context information is received from another node.

30. The communication network node of claim 27, wherein the context information comprises location information.

31. The communication network node of claim 27, wherein the context information comprises information regarding an amount of data traffic.

32. A communication network node comprising:

at least one module comprising a processing circuit and a memory and being operable to, at least;

transmit a beacon message in accordance with a defined beaconing strategy;

receive context information comprising information identifying physical context of the node;

analyze the received context information;

redefine the beaconing strategy, based at least in part on the analyzed received context information; and

transmit a beacon message in accordance with the redefined beaconing strategy.

33. The communication network node of claim 32, wherein the information identifying physical context of the node comprises temperature information.

34. The communication network node of claim 32, wherein the information identifying physical context of the node comprises power supply status information.

35. The communication network node of claim 34, wherein the power supply status information comprises information indicating whether a power supply for the node is running low.

36. The communication network node of claim 32, wherein the information identifying physical context of the node comprises information identifying a location of the node.

37. The communication network node of claim 36, wherein the information identifying the location of the node comprises information describing movement of the node.

38. The communication network node of claim 37, wherein the information describing movement of the node comprises information describing present movement of the node.

39. The communication network node of claim 37, wherein the information describing movement of the node comprises information describing predicted movement of the node.

40. A communication network node comprising:

at least one module comprising a processing circuit and a memory and being operable to, at least;

transmit a beacon message in accordance with a defined beaconing strategy;

receive, from another network node, context information comprising information identifying communication condition context of the node;

analyze the received context information;

redefine the beaconing strategy, based at least in part on the analyzed received context information; and

transmit a beacon message in accordance with the redefined beaconing strategy.

41. The communication network node of claim 40, wherein the information identifying communication condition context of the node comprises channel loading information.

42. The communication network node of claim 40, wherein the information identifying communication condition context of the node comprises information identifying an amount of data traffic.

43. The communication network node of claim 40, wherein the information identifying communication condition context of the node comprises information identifying an amount of communication bandwidth.

44. The communication network node of claim 43, wherein the information identifying an amount of communication bandwidth comprises information identifying an amount of communication bandwidth available.

45. The communication network node of claim 40, wherein the information identifying communication condition context of the node comprises information identifying an error rate.

46. The communication network node of claim 40, wherein the information identifying communication condition context of the node comprises information identifying an RF channel characteristic.