Method and apparatus for setting up and managing operational environment in P2P wireless networks
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsDragan M. Boscovic, Wlodzimierz S. Czarnocki, Lawrence M. Ecklund, Gary W. Grube
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Abstract
In a cognitive radio, a method of establishing an operational policy for use in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) group, wherein the policy can be described by layers of policy parameters with progressively higher layers having a progressively increasing number of parameters, involves determining that a policy change is to be made from a current policy; requesting policy information from at least one P2P group member; receiving a policy description from the at least one P2P group member; and implementing a change in the lowest layer policy parameter to establish a new operational policy.
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In a cognitive radio operating in a Peer-to-Peer (P2) group, a method of establishing an operational policy, wherein policy data are arranged in a hierarchy of layers, with higher layer of the hierarchy specifying fewer policy parameters than lower layers which specify increasing numbers of communication policy parameters, comprising:
- determining that a policy change is to be made to a new operational policy;
- determining a policy depth in terms of layers from a number of members of the P2P group;
- requesting a layer of operational policy information from an authority;
- receiving the layer of operational policy information from the authority;
- correlating the layer with a specified operational policy;
- if the layer correlates with the specified operational policy with at least a threshold level of correlation, then conducting a focused interrogation to obtain only the additional parameter or parameters needed to adjust the specified operational policy to the new operational policy;
- if the layer does not correlate with the specified operational policy with at least the threshold level of correlation, then requesting a policy layer that specifies more parameters than the first policy layer in order to define the new operational policy;
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- implementing the new operational policy.
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