Method and apparatus for a wireless home mesh network with network topology visualizer
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1. A method comprising:
- collecting, with circuitry of an electronics device, node connectivity and network topology information regarding mobile nodes and stationary nodes of a wireless mesh network in response to a series of unicast transmissions within the wireless mesh network;
formulating with the circuitry a network topology map of the wireless mesh network by the electronics device based on the collected node connectivity and network topology information;
preparing, by the electronics device, the network topology map of the wireless mesh network, andin response to a detected change in network topology due to a movement of a mobile node, updating the network topology information to reflect a topology expansion beyond a single local ring.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for a wireless home mesh network with a network topology visualizer is described. In one embodiment, the method may include collecting node topology information by a node of a wireless home mesh network, where the node topology information includes a list of neighbor nodes for the node. Thereafter, a communication socket is opened, and a node topology packet, including a lust of neighbor nodes, is transmitted in order to produce a global network topology map. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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collecting, with circuitry of an electronics device, node connectivity and network topology information regarding mobile nodes and stationary nodes of a wireless mesh network in response to a series of unicast transmissions within the wireless mesh network; formulating with the circuitry a network topology map of the wireless mesh network by the electronics device based on the collected node connectivity and network topology information; preparing, by the electronics device, the network topology map of the wireless mesh network, and in response to a detected change in network topology due to a movement of a mobile node, updating the network topology information to reflect a topology expansion beyond a single local ring. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to; collect node connectivity and network topology information regarding mobile nodes and stationary nodes of a wireless mesh network in response a series of unicast transmissions within the wireless mesh network, formulate a network topology map of the wireless mesh network based on the collected node connectivity and network topology information, prepare the network topology map of the wireless mesh network, and in response to a detected change in network topology due to a movement of a mobile node, update the network topology information to reflect a topology expansion beyond a single local ring. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An apparatus comprising:
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a display; and circuitry configured to; send a display signal to the display device of a network topology map of a wireless home mesh network, the network topology map including node connectivity and network topology information regarding mobile nodes and stationary nodes of the wireless mesh network collected from a series of unicast transmissions within the wireless mesh network, and in response to a detected change in network topology due to a movement of a mobile node, update the network topology information to reflect a topology expansion beyond a single local ring. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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