Abstract:
A method of dividing a first piconet into two or more piconets is implemented by a master wireless device. The master wireless device selects a master for a second piconet from among the slave wireless devices within the first piconet. The selection can be based upon each operational link between a base site and candidates for master of the second piconet as well as each operational link between the candidates for master of the second piconet and candidates for active slaves of the second piconet. The master wireless device thereafter informs each slave of the first piconet of the selection of the master of the second piconet. The master wireless device can further assign one or more of the slaves of the first piconet to enlist as a slave in the second piconet, or alternatively, each slave of the first piconet can enlist as a slave in either the first piconet or the second piconet.
Abstract:
A method of selecting one or more active slave wireless devices from a plurality of active/parked slave wireless devices is implemented by a master wireless device. The master wireless device initially assigns sequential weights to each active/parked slave wireless device, and subsequently designates one or more of the active/parked slave wireless devices as active slave wireless device(s) based partially or entirely on the assigned sequential weights. The assignment of sequential weights can be accomplished by assigning each active/parked slave wireless device to one of a plurality of ranked groups collectively representative of various traffic types between a base site and the active/parked slave wireless devices. Each active/parked slave wireless device is then sorted within its respective group.