Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributing an advertisement of channel assignments in a wireless mesh network over a sequence of multiple advertisement elements
- Patent Title (中): 在无线网状网络中通过多个广告元素的序列分发频道分配的广告
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Application No.: US13697877Application Date: 2011-05-17
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Publication No.: US09125215B2Publication Date: 2015-09-01
- Inventor: Michael Bahr
- Applicant: Michael Bahr
- Applicant Address: DE Munich
- Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
- Current Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
- Current Assignee Address: DE Munich
- Agency: Slayden Grubert Beard PLLC
- Priority: EP10005133 20100517
- International Application: PCT/EP2011/057989 WO 20110517
- International Announcement: WO2011/144626 WO 20111124
- Main IPC: H04B7/212
- IPC: H04B7/212 ; H04W74/08 ; H04W74/00 ; H04W84/18

Abstract:
According to the known IEEE 802.11s Draft Standard for WLAN Mesh Networking, version D5.0, the size of an information element is restricted to a length of 255 octets. Due to the definition of an MCCAOP advertisements element as a general information element this restriction is a major drawback leading to a maximum of 62 MCCA reservations to be advertised by an MCCAOP advertisements element. Although this number of reservations might be sufficient in the majority of situations, it is easily imaginable that there are situations which could require an advertisement exceeding this limit of 62 MCCA reservations. According to the disclosure, an MCCAOP advertisement—which is a set of MCCAOP reservations that needs to be advertised—is split over multiple MCCAOP advertisements elements. This may advantageously allow advertising more than 62 MCCAOP reservations to neighboring mesh nodes in a wireless mesh network which is configured to use MCCA.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130058323A1 INFORMATION ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING CHANNEL RESERVATIONS Public/Granted day:2013-03-07
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