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Balancing clusters of a wireless mesh network

  • US 8,031,615 B2
  • Filed: 02/27/2007
  • Issued: 10/04/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of propagating information regarding a size of a cluster within a wireless mesh network, comprising:

  • a gateway within the cluster maintaining information of access nodes within the cluster;

    the gateway determining a cluster size based on the maintained information, wherein the cluster size is based on a number of access nodes within the cluster;

    the gateway including its cluster size within routing packets;

    wherein each connecting access node not within the cluster determines whether to route through the gateway based at least in part on the cluster size of the gateway, and additionally based on a number of devices that are downstream from the connecting access node.

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