Dynamic fusion management
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1. A system for managing nodes on a network, comprising:
- a plurality of nodes, each node reporting a sensor data; and
a clustering unit that groups said plurality of nodes into a plurality of subnets;
wherein each node of the plurality of nodes reports said sensor data to every other node of the plurality of nodes; and
wherein each node of said plurality of nodes reports said sensor data to each of the other nodes in said plurality of nodes by sending a sensor message to the reported-to node at a first rate if the reporting node and the reported-to node are in a same subnet and at a second rate if the reporting node and the reported-to node are in a different subnet, said second rate being substantially lower than said first rate; and
wherein said clustering unit groups said plurality of nodes as a function of a connection time during which one or more of said nodes has shared a direct connectivity communications link with another of said nodes, and as a function of an environmental impairment of the direct connectivity communications link between said one or more of said nodes and said another of said nodes.
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Abstract
A system and method for managing a network of nodes that share sensor data is presented. In one embodiment, the system and method clusters groups of nodes into subnets. Nodes in a common subnet share sensor data with other nodes in the subnet at one rate, while nodes that are not in a common subnet share sensor data at a second substantially reduced rate.
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1. A system for managing nodes on a network, comprising:
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a plurality of nodes, each node reporting a sensor data; and a clustering unit that groups said plurality of nodes into a plurality of subnets; wherein each node of the plurality of nodes reports said sensor data to every other node of the plurality of nodes; and wherein each node of said plurality of nodes reports said sensor data to each of the other nodes in said plurality of nodes by sending a sensor message to the reported-to node at a first rate if the reporting node and the reported-to node are in a same subnet and at a second rate if the reporting node and the reported-to node are in a different subnet, said second rate being substantially lower than said first rate; and wherein said clustering unit groups said plurality of nodes as a function of a connection time during which one or more of said nodes has shared a direct connectivity communications link with another of said nodes, and as a function of an environmental impairment of the direct connectivity communications link between said one or more of said nodes and said another of said nodes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for sharing sensor data between a plurality of nodes on a network, comprising:
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grouping a plurality of nodes into a plurality of subnets; and sharing a sensor data reported by a first node of said plurality of nodes to every other node of said plurality of nodes by; (a) sharing said sensor data by sending sensor messages at a first rate between said first node and each other node in a common subnet; and (b) sharing said sensor data by sending sensor messages at a second rate between said first node and each other node of said plurality of nodes not in the common subnet; wherein said first rate is greater than said second rate. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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