Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reliable link layer multicast in a low power wide area network
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Application No.: US17010749Application Date: 2020-09-02
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Publication No.: US11463844B2Publication Date: 2022-10-04
- Inventor: Pascal Thubert , Patrick Wetterwald , Paul B Duffy , Patrick Grossetete
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agent Leon R. Turkevich
- Main IPC: H04W4/06
- IPC: H04W4/06 ; H04W72/00 ; H04L1/16 ; H04W74/08 ; H04W84/22

Abstract:
A management device for a low power wide area network can: generate and send, to each constrained wireless network device via a wired gateway, a link layer multicast listener command specifying a listening interval and causing each constrained wireless network device to change from a low-power optimized mode to a listening mode until reception of a multicast data packet within the listening interval; generate collision avoidance parameters including a minimum waiting interval, a maximum waiting interval relative to the listening interval, and a redundancy constant; and instruct the wired gateways to selectively transmit the multicast data packet based on the collision avoidance parameters, wherein each wired gateway responds by waiting a randomly-selected wait interval between the minimum and maximum waiting intervals, and selectively transmitting the multicast data packet only if a received number of the multicast data packet by the corresponding wired gateway is less than the redundancy constant.
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