Mobile node group formation and management
First Claim
1. In a computing environment, a system comprising:
- a node associated with a mobile network configured to;
establish a beacon listening duration of the node;
establish a beacon listening period of the node, the beacon listening period being a period between two consecutive listening durations;
extend the beacon listening duration of the node on detecting a presence of an advertising node, the advertising node switching out of a low power state to a broadcasting state; and
coordinate beacon transmissions and beacon receptions with other nodes in the mobile network at time slots between low power states, the low power states being power saving states during which the beacon transmissions and the beacon receptions are disabled.
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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 system comprising:
a node associated with a mobile network configured to; establish a beacon listening duration of the node; establish a beacon listening period of the node, the beacon listening period being a period between two consecutive listening durations; extend the beacon listening duration of the node on detecting a presence of an advertising node, the advertising node switching out of a low power state to a broadcasting state; and coordinate beacon transmissions and beacon receptions with other nodes in the mobile network at time slots between low power states, the low power states being power saving states during which the beacon transmissions and the beacon receptions are disabled. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. In a computing environment, a system comprising:
a management mechanism implemented on a node and configured to; determine a beacon listening duration and a beacon listening period in response to an energy budget; determine a beacon broadcasting duration based on the determined beacon listening period and the beacon listening duration; increase the determined beacon listening duration based on detection of a presence of one or more other nodes during the determined beacon listening duration; and obtain membership information of the one or more other nodes. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. In a computing environment, a method for establishing a network of nodes over wireless links, the method being performed by a processor, the method comprising:
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coordinating beacon transmissions and beacon receptions of the nodes at time slots between low power states of the nodes, the coordination establishing the network of nodes; propagating membership information, associated with the nodes forming the network, between the nodes during the beacon transmissions; and updating the membership information, associated with the nodes forming the network, between the nodes during the beacon receptions. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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