Method for advertising channel reservations
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorMichael Bahr
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Abstract
A method is disclosed for advertising channel reservations by an advertisement in a wireless mesh network, the advertisement being adapted for at least partially advertising channel reservations known by a transmitting node. The method includes: mapping at least one channel reservation to an advertisement element identifier, the advertisement element identifier identifying an advertisement element; considering said advertisement element to contain a set of channel reservations assigned to said advertisement identification number; and advertising said reservation by transmitting said advertisement element characterized by said advertisement element identifier.
Claims24
A method for advertising channel reservations by an advertisement in a wireless mesh network, the advertisement being identified by an advertisement identification number and being adapted for at least partially advertising channel reservations known by a transmitting node via one or multiple advertisement elements, the method comprising for each advertisement element:
- mapping at least one channel reservation to an advertisement element identifier in a fixed mapping, the advertisement element identifier identifying an advertisement element;
- considering said advertisement element to contain a set of channel reservations assigned to said advertisement identification number;
- and
- advertising said reservation by transmitting said advertisement element identified by said advertisement element identifier.
A transmitting node in a wireless mesh network comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-readable instructions executable by the processor to perform a method for advertising channel reservations by an advertisement in the wireless mesh network, the advertisement being identified by an advertisement identification number and being adapted for at least partially advertising channel reservations known by the transmitting node via one or multiple advertisement elements, the method comprising for each advertisement element:
- mapping at least one channel reservation to an advertisement element identifier in a fixed mapping, the advertisement element identifier identifying an advertisement element;
- considering said advertisement element to contain a set of channel reservations assigned to said advertisement identification number;
- and
- advertising said reservation by transmitting said advertisement element being characterized by said advertisement element identifier.
Computer program product, which contains a program code stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and which, when executed by a processor of a transmitting node in a mesh network, carries out a method for advertising channel reservations by an advertisement in a wireless mesh network, the advertisement being identified by an advertisement identification number and being adapted for at least partially advertising channel reservations known by the transmitting node via one or multiple advertisement elements, the method comprising for each advertisement element:
- mapping at least one channel reservation to an advertisement element identifier in a fixed mapping, the advertisement element identifier identifying an advertisement element;
- considering said advertisement element to contain a set of channel reservations assigned to said advertisement identification number;
- and
- advertising said reservation by transmitting said advertisement element being characterized by said advertisement element identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.