Techniques and systems for logical mesh network control
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsRAZ WEIZMAN, NOAM S. BROUSARD
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Abstract
Various embodiments are described wherein a set of devices are configured to be a logical mesh network. Each device has a logical mesh network address. Further, the set of logical mesh network addresses form a sequence from a first address to a last address, and intermediate addresses having both a preceding and a next address. The devices store forwarding information used to determine how to forward a received logical mesh network packet. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims24
An apparatus comprising:
- logic, at least a portion of which is implemented in hardware or firmware, the logic to comprise a logical connection manager for a device to manage logical connections with a set of devices, the logical connection manager to comprise:
- discovery logic to advertise and scan logical mesh network (LMN) connection information;
- signal strength logic to determine, based on the LMN connection information, which device of the set of devices has a highest received strength signal indication (RSSI);
- connection logic to initiate a connection to the device determined to have the highest RSSI;
- control logic to send a signal to the discovery logic to stop discovery operations after a connection is formed, respectively, by a master interface to a slave interface of another device, or by a slave interface to a master interface of another device;
- and
- forwarding logic to communicate, from each connected device, LMN forwarding information, until the forwarding information comprises a defined order of sequential devices.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions which when executed enable a first device in a set of a devices to:
- advertise and scan logical mesh network (LMN) connection information;
- determine, based on the LMN connection information, which device of the set of devices has a highest received strength signal indication (RSSI);
- initiate a connection to the device determined to have the highest RSSI;
- send a signal to the discovery logic to stop discovery operations after a connection is formed, respectively, by a master interface to a slave interface of another device, or by a slave interface to a master interface of another device;
- and
- communicate, from each connected device, LMN forwarding information, until the forwarding information comprises a defined order of sequential devices.
A machine-implemented method to manage logical connections for a first device of a set of devices comprising:
- advertising and scanning logical mesh network (LMN) connection information;
- determining, based on the LMN connection information, which device of the set of devices has a highest received strength signal indication (RSSI);
- initiating a connection to the device determined to have the highest RSSI;
- sending a signal to the discovery logic to stop discovery operations after a connection is formed, respectively, by a master interface to a slave interface of another device, or by a slave interface to a master interface of another device;
- and
- communicating, from each connected device, LMN forwarding information, until the forwarding information comprises a defined order of sequential devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.