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US 10,374,879 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for determining MoCA beacon transmit power
AssigneeMaxLinear, Inc.
InventorsYoav Hebron, Na Chen, Ronald Lee
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Abstract
Systems and methods for efficiently establishing beacon transmission power, for example in networks in which beacon transmission responsibility can be passed between nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for establishing beacon transmission power in a node that has received beacon transmission responsibility in a network, for example by hand-off, failover, etc.
Claims18
A network comprising:
- a first network node;
- and
- a second network node, wherein:
- the first network node comprises at least one circuit operable to, at least:
- determine whether to control beacon transmission power of one or more other nodes of the network;
- and
- if it is determined to control the beacon transmission power of the one or more other nodes of the network, then at least:
- populate a beacon power information element with information comprising the beacon power value;
- and
- transmit the beacon power information element in a broadcast message;
- and
- the second network node comprises at least one circuit operable to, at least:
- receive a distributed beacon power value in a beacon power information element transmitted by the first network node;
- determine whether to utilize the distributed beacon power value for transmission of a beacon;
- and
- if it is determined to utilize the distributed beacon power value for transmission of the beacon, then transmit the beacon with a transmission power that is in accordance with the distributed beacon power value.
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A network node comprising:
- at least one circuit comprising a processor, memory, and communication medium interface circuitry, wherein the at least one circuit is operable to, at least:
- receive a distributed beacon power value in a beacon power information element transmitted by another node;
- determine whether to utilize the distributed beacon power value for transmission of a beacon;
- and
- if it is determined to utilize the distributed beacon power value for transmission of the beacon, then transmit the beacon with a transmission power that is in accordance with the distributed beacon power value.
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A network node comprising:
- at least one circuit comprising a processor, memory, and communication medium interface circuitry, wherein the at least one circuit is operable to, at least:
- determine whether to control beacon transmission power of one or more other nodes of a network;
- and
- if it is determined to control the beacon transmission power of the one or more other nodes of the network, then at least:
- populate a beacon power information element with information comprising a beacon power value;
- and
- transmit the beacon power information element in a broadcast message,
- wherein the at least one circuit is operable to, when it is determined to transmit the beacon power information element in a broadcast message, always transmit the beacon power information element in a broadcast message at least three times, each in a different respective medium access control message.
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A network node comprising:
- at least one circuit comprising a processor, memory, and communication medium interface circuitry, wherein the at least one circuit is operable to, at least:
- determine whether to control beacon transmission power of one or more other nodes of a network;
- and
- if it is determined to control the beacon transmission power of the one or more other nodes of the network, then at least:
- populate a beacon power information element with information comprising a beacon power value;
- and transmit the beacon power information element in a broadcast message,
- wherein the at least one circuit is operable to, when it is determined to transmit the beacon power information element in a broadcast message, always transmit the beacon power information element in a broadcast message at least three times, each in a different respective beacon cycle.
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A network node comprising:
- at least one circuit comprising a processor, memory, and communication medium interface circuitry, wherein the at least one circuit is operable to, at least:
- determine whether to control beacon transmission power of one or more other nodes of a network;
- and
- if it is determined to control the beacon transmission power of the one or more other nodes of the network, then at least:
- populate a beacon power information element with information comprising a beacon power value;
- and transmit the beacon power information element in a broadcast message,
- wherein the at least one circuit is operable to determine whether to control beacon transmission power of one or more other nodes of the network based, at least in part, on a beacon power control parameter, independent of present communication medium conditions, that indicates the beacon power value is to be distributed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.