Reclaiming transmission priority following network topology formation

An apparatus implemented as a physical machine, the apparatus comprising:

• non-transitory machine readable media configured for storing executable machine readable code;
• a device interface circuit configured for transmitting an advertisement into a data network;
• and
• a processor circuit configured for executing the machine readable code, and when executing the machine readable code operable for:
• joining, by the apparatus implemented as a network device, a network topology rooted by a root network device in the data network, and in response transmitting the advertisement indicating a position of the network device in the network topology,
• suppressing a second transmission based on initiating a deferred transmission operation in response to transmitting the advertisement,
• maintaining the deferred transmission operation for at least a prescribed deferral interval that enables at least a prescribed minimum number of other network devices to join the network topology at respective identified lower positions than the position of the network device, and
• changing from the deferred transmission operation to an accelerated operation in response to one of expiration of the prescribed deferral interval or detecting the prescribed minimum number of other network devices having the respective identified lower positions, the accelerated operation enabling the network device to initiate transmission of a data packet before the other network devices.

One or more non-transitory tangible media encoded with logic for execution by a machine and when executed by the machine operable for:

• joining, by the machine implemented as a network device, a network topology rooted by a root network device in a data network, and in response transmitting an advertisement indicating a position of the network device in the network topology;
• suppressing, by the network device, a second transmission based on initiating a deferred transmission operation in response to transmitting the advertisement;
• maintaining, by the network device, the deferred transmission operation for at least a prescribed deferral interval that enables at least a prescribed minimum number of other network devices to join the network topology at respective identified lower positions than the position of the network device;
• and
• changing, by the network device, from the deferred transmission operation to an accelerated operation in response to one or expiration of the prescribed deferral interval or detecting the prescribed minimum number of other network devices having the respective identified lower positions, the accelerated operation enabling the network device to initiate transmission of a data packet before the other network devices.