Dynamic power line access connection
AssigneeMain.Net Communications Ltd.
InventorsOfir Efrati, Yeshayahu Zalitzky
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Abstract
A method of connecting a power line modem to an external network. The method includes receiving, by the power line modem, a plurality of packets directly transmitted from a plurality of neighboring devices connected to the power lines, determining for each of the plurality of neighboring devices, a cost of a route to an access unit, through the neighboring device, responsive to the received packets, and selecting an access unit to service the power line modem, responsive to the determination of the costs.
Claims19
A method of connecting a power line modem to an external network, comprising:
- receiving, by the power line modem, a plurality of packets directly transmitted from a plurality of neighboring devices connected to a power line network;
- selecting, by the power line modem, an access unit to service the power line modem, responsive to the received packets from the plurality of neighboring devices;
- and
- transmitting one or more network discovery packets on the power line and wherein the received plurality of packets are generated responsive to at least one of the one or more discovery packets,
- wherein transmitting the one or more network discovery packets comprises transmitting a plurality of packets with different transmission power levels.
A method of connecting a power line modem to an external network, comprising:
- receiving, by the power line modem, a plurality of packets directly transmitted from a plurality of neighboring devices connected to a power line network;
- selecting, by the power line modem, an access unit to service the power line modem, responsive to the received packets from the plurality of neighboring devices;
- and
- transmitting one or more network discovery packets on the power line and wherein the received plurality of packets are generated responsive to at least one of the one or more discovery packets,
- wherein transmitting the one or more network discovery packets comprises transmitting with increasing power levels until a route with a cost beneath a predetermined threshold is found.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.