Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Changes of cluster head
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Application No.: US15024536Application Date: 2013-10-30
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Publication No.: US10271269B2Publication Date: 2019-04-23
- Inventor: Vinh Van Phan , Ling Yu , Kari Veikko Horneman
- Applicant: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Agency: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP
- International Application: PCT/EP2013/072726 WO 20131030
- International Announcement: WO2015/043687 WO 20150402
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04W48/14 ; H04W76/14 ; H04W4/80 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W4/08 ; H04W74/00 ; H04W74/04 ; H04W24/02 ; H04W48/16 ; H04W48/20 ; H04W84/18 ; H04W84/20 ; H04W48/12 ; H04W92/18 ; H04W74/08

Abstract:
It is provided a method, including: monitoring if a first cluster head of a first cluster of first communication devices has disappeared, wherein an apparatus performing the method has access to the first cluster enabling a device-to-device communication of the apparatus with at least one of the first communication devices; and, if it is monitored that the first cluster head has disappeared: detecting a second cluster head of a second cluster of second communication devices, wherein the second cluster head is different from the first cluster head, and the second cluster enables the device-to-device communication between at least two of the second communication devices; and requesting an access to the second cluster for the device-to-device communication.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160242101A1 CHANGES OF CLUSTER HEAD Public/Granted day:2016-08-18
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