Mobile node group formation and management
First Claim
1. In a computing environment, a method comprising, managing energy consumption of a node during discovery and group maintenance over wireless links, including, determining a beacon listening duration and a beacon listening period in response to an energy budget, determining a beacon broadcasting duration and a beacon broadcasting period based on the beacon listening period and the beacon listening duration, and between low power states, connecting to one or more other nodes within a mobile network at one or more time slots corresponding to at least one of the beacon listening duration and the beacon broadcasting duration.
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Abstract
The subject disclosure is directed towards mobile network management by reducing energy consumption and increasing a lifetime of one or more nodes. By determining a beacon listening duration and a beacon listening period in response to an energy budget, each node may minimize or reduce latencies associated with node discovery and/or node group maintenance. The beacon listening duration and the beacon listening period is used to compute a beacon broadcasting duration and a beacon broadcasting period such that advertising beacon transmissions and advertising beacon receptions occur at substantially concurrent time slots between low power states. These advertising beacons are used to propagate and maintain group membership information amongst the one or more nodes.
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- 1. In a computing environment, a method comprising, managing energy consumption of a node during discovery and group maintenance over wireless links, including, determining a beacon listening duration and a beacon listening period in response to an energy budget, determining a beacon broadcasting duration and a beacon broadcasting period based on the beacon listening period and the beacon listening duration, and between low power states, connecting to one or more other nodes within a mobile network at one or more time slots corresponding to at least one of the beacon listening duration and the beacon broadcasting duration.
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