Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110176416 | Method for Discovering Multiple Routes in Sensor Networks - Multiple routes from a data source node to multiple data destination nodes in a large scale multi-hop mesh network are discovered. Nodes discover multiple routes to two destinations in an initial discovery phase that includes only two network-wide flooding of packets. The method can also work with one destination. The method can be extended to include more destinations with a proportional increase in the communication overhead. After the completion of the discovery phase, nodes can communicate or forward their own or received data by using any of the available routes. | 07-21-2011 |
20120147864 | Synchronous Data Transmission in Hybrid Communication Networks for Transportation Safety Systems - A hybrid communication network for a transportation safety system includes a wired network including a set of fixed nodes. Each fixed node includes a wired interface for connecting the fixed node to the wired network and at least one wireless interface. The set of fixed nodes further includes a head node at a first end of the wired network connected to a controller, a terminal node at a second end of the wired network, and a set of relay nodes arranged between the head node and the terminal node. A wireless network includes a set of mobile nodes and a set of fixed nodes connected to the wired network. Each mobile node includes at least one of the wireless interfaces, and each mobile node is arranged in a moveable car. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147879 | Method for Scheduling Data Transmission in Hybrid Communication Networks for Transportation Safety Systems - A hybrid communication network for a transportation safety system includes a fixed wired nodes and mobile wireless nodes. Because the wired nodes operate independently packets transmitted by the wired nodes to the wireless nodes need to be synchronized. A downlink travel time for downlink packets traveling from a controller to the wireless nodes is determined. Then, the controller schedules downlink data intervals (DDI) based on the downlink travel time; and transmits downlink packets to the wireless nodes during the DDI, such that a latency requirement of the transportation safety system is satisfied. | 06-14-2012 |
20120163486 | Method of Selecting Antennas in a Wireless Communicating Network for High Reliability and Low Latency - A network includes a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the transmitter includes a set of transmit antennas and the receiver includes a set of receive antennas. The transmitter duplicates a packet as copies of the packet, and selects subsets of the set of transmit antennas independent of channel characteristics between the subsets of transmit antennas and the set of receive antennas, wherein combinations of the antennas in the subsets of the transmit antennas are different. The receiver selects subsets of the set of receive antennas independent of channel characteristics between the subsets of receive antennas and the set of transmit antennas, wherein combinations of the antennas in the subsets of the receive antennas are different. The selected subsets are used to transmit the packet, and retransmit the packet in case of a failure in a previous transmission. | 06-28-2012 |
20120327792 | Method for Discovering and Maintaining Routes in Smart Meter Networks - A set of routes are discovered in a network including concentrators, smart meters and an imaginary node. Each concentrator node, a source, broadcasts a route request (RREQ) packet to the imaginary destination node. Intermediate nodes store a route as a node list (NL) in the RREQ packet and as a route table (RT) in the node. Then, each smart meter node can select a primary route and a secondary route from the smart meter node to any concentrator from the route table. | 12-27-2012 |
20130119770 | Network Architectures for Distributed Resource Management in Electric Power Systems - A network for managing distributed resources (DRs) is connected to an electric power system (EPS). The network includes a set of controllers, and multiple sets of the DRs, wherein each controller is connected to one of the sets of the DRs by a personal area network (PAN). A management system connects the EPS and the set of controllers by a wide area network (WAN). The EPS generates commands for selected DRs to take actions, the commands are routed to the selected DRs via the WAN and PANs. | 05-16-2013 |
20130158903 | Method and System for Detecting Transients in Power Grids - Conditions in a power grid are detected by sampling a voltage in the grid. A normal condition hypothesis is modeled as a sinusoid, and a transient condition hypothesis is modeled as a sum of damped sinusoids. The samples are used to construct probability density function. A likelihood ratio based on the pdf and the hypotheses is compared to a threshold to determine whether the condition is normal or transient. | 06-20-2013 |
20130208583 | Avoiding Broken Links in Smart Meter Networks for Loop-Free Routing of Packets - Broken links in a sensor network are avoided by representing the network as a DODAG. A rank associated with each node defines a position of each node relative to other nodes, and the rank is in a form of a proper fraction, and the rank of each node never increases to enable loop-free routing. | 08-15-2013 |
20130223334 | Channel Scan for Smart Meter Networks to Determine Operating Channels - An operation channel in a multi-hop network is determined. The network uses a set of channels, and one of the nodes is a network management node. The operation channel is selected in the network management node. Then, the network management node broadcasts a channel information packet including the operation channel using all channels. The channel information packet is received in each of other nodes, either directly from the network management node or from an intermediate node that received and rebroadcasted the channel information packet. Lastly, the operation channel in each node is set according to the channel information packet until the network is formed. | 08-29-2013 |
20130262648 | Location Based Data Delivery Schedulers - Packets are transmitted by a server to mobile nodes in a coverage area of a wireless network using a coverage and reliability map, which indicates qualities and reliabilities of links between the server and the nodes. When a new packet is received in the server, the server transmits the packet if a current load of the packets including the new packet is less than a peak load constraint. Otherwise, the new packet is delayed for one time slot. Packets are transmitted according to associated priorities. | 10-03-2013 |
20140204759 | Load Balanced Routing for Low Power and Lossy Networks - A node includes a receiver for receiving a first packet from a first node at a first time and a second packet from a second node at a second time, a processor for determining the first time and the second time and for comparing the first time with the second time to produce a ratio of workloads of the first node and the second node, and a transmitter for transmitting packets to the first and the second nodes based on the ratio. | 07-24-2014 |
20140244187 | Method for Detecting Islanding with Periodically Transmitted Sequence of Unsynchronized Signals - Conditions in a power grid are detected by sampling a voltage in the grid. A normal condition hypothesis is modeled as a sinusoid, and a transient condition hypothesis is modeled as a sum of damped sinusoids. The samples are used to construct a probability density function. A likelihood ratio based on the pdf and the hypotheses is compared to a threshold to determine whether the condition is normal or transient. | 08-28-2014 |
20140304383 | Method for Clustering Devices in Machine-to-Machine Networks to Minimize Collisions - Nodes in a network are clustered by first determining, in each node, a cluster head capability (CHC). The CHC is broadcasting, directly or indirectly, until all nodes have received the CHCs. Each node nominates, one or more candidate cluster heads based on the CHCs, and then, in each node, at least one cluster head is selected from the candidate cluster head nodes based on maximal CHCs. | 10-09-2014 |
20150085668 | Discovering Stable Routes in Wireless Networks - A method discovers routes for forwarding packets from source nodes (sources) to sink nodes (sinks) in a wireless network, wherein some neighboring sources act as relay nodes. Each source measures a rate of receiving control messages from each neighboring node. Then, the data packets are forwarded from a particular source to the sink via the neighboring nodes having a lowest rate. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085696 | Method for Discovering Neighboring Nodes in Wireless Networks - A method discovers neighboring nodes in a wireless network of nodes. The nodes include a set of concentrators acting as IPv6 routers and a set of sensor nodes acting as IPv6 hosts. The sensor nodes can also act as relay nodes. In each node, a 64-bit interface ID is configured using a 48-bit MAC address. In each node, a unique IPv6 link-local address is configured using the 64-bit interface ID. In each node, the neighboring nodes are discovered by transmitting unsolicited Neighbor Advertisement (NA) messages. A Router Advertisement (RA) messages is distributed from the concentrators to the sensor nodes meters by using the relay nodes. In each node, a unique IPv6 address is configured and registered at the concentrators by using the relay nodes. | 03-26-2015 |