Wireless radio packet switching network
First Claim
1. In a radio based packet switched communications network comprising a plurality of radio transceivers, each of which is located at a predetermined site in an area of defined extent, a method of establishing a transmission path through said network, comprising the steps of:
- configuring said plurality of radio transceivers into at least two relay elements, each relay element comprising at least two of said plurality of radio transceivers and covering a predetermined sector of said area of defined extent through which messages are transmitted with propagation certainty, with at least one of said radio transceivers in said relay element being a gateway radio transceiver for exchanging data packets with other of such gateway radio transceivers in other relay elements; and
defining a virtual waveguide of limited spatial extent through said network to forward a data packet received at a first radio transceiver in a one of said relay elements and forwarded through said sector covered by said relay element to a gateway radio transceiver in said one relay element to a destination radio transceiver in said network via said virtual waveguide which comprises a predefined succession of ones of said plurality of radio transceivers that are cooperatively operative to transmit a data packet received from a radio transceiver last prior in said succession to a radio transceiver next in said succession from said gateway radio transceiver in said one relay element to said destination radio transceiver in said network.
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Abstract
The method and apparatus of the present invention converts a geographically dispersed collection of transceivers into an organized packet switched network with greater utilization of each transceiver and a significant reduction in the number of central control sites as well as the elimination of a substantial number of the ground-based communication links between central control sites and their hierarchically senior data collection elements. This is accomplished by the implementation of virtual waveguides that represent deterministic data communication highways through the plurality of radio transceivers to transmit data from various sources to identified destinations.
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29 Claims
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1. In a radio based packet switched communications network comprising a plurality of radio transceivers, each of which is located at a predetermined site in an area of defined extent, a method of establishing a transmission path through said network, comprising the steps of:
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configuring said plurality of radio transceivers into at least two relay elements, each relay element comprising at least two of said plurality of radio transceivers and covering a predetermined sector of said area of defined extent through which messages are transmitted with propagation certainty, with at least one of said radio transceivers in said relay element being a gateway radio transceiver for exchanging data packets with other of such gateway radio transceivers in other relay elements; and defining a virtual waveguide of limited spatial extent through said network to forward a data packet received at a first radio transceiver in a one of said relay elements and forwarded through said sector covered by said relay element to a gateway radio transceiver in said one relay element to a destination radio transceiver in said network via said virtual waveguide which comprises a predefined succession of ones of said plurality of radio transceivers that are cooperatively operative to transmit a data packet received from a radio transceiver last prior in said succession to a radio transceiver next in said succession from said gateway radio transceiver in said one relay element to said destination radio transceiver in said network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. In a radio based packet switched communications network comprising a plurality of radio transceivers, each of which is located at a predetermined site in an area of defined extent, a method of establishing a transmission path through said network, comprising the steps of:
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configuring said plurality of radio transceivers into at least two relay elements, each relay element comprising at least two of said plurality of radio transceivers and covering a predetermined sector of said area of defined extent through which messages are transmitted with propagation certainty, with at least one of said radio transceivers in said relay element being a gateway radio transceiver for exchanging data packets with other of such gateway radio transceivers in other relay elements, comprising the steps of; defining, a virtual waveguide of limited spatial extent through said network to forward a data packet received at a first radio transceiver in a one of said relay elements and forwarded through said sector covered by said relay element to a gateway radio transceiver in said one relay element to a destination radio transceiver in said network via said virtual waveguide which comprises a predefined succession of ones of said plurality of radio transceivers that are cooperatively operative to transmit a data packet received from a radio transceiver last prior in said succession to a radio transceiver next in said succession from said gateway radio transceiver in said one relay element to said destination radio transceiver in said network; interconnecting said network via a network gateway transceiver to communication apparatus external to said network; and generating, in a packet originating one of said plurality of radio transceivers, a said data packet having a predefined protocol comprising; identifying said network gateway as a destination radio transceiver, and storing data for transmission to said network gateway. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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