초록 ▼

An internetworking node for providing internetworking services for mobile wireless nodes is disclosed. Each mobile wireless node is registered with at the most one internetworking node. Each mobile wireless node emits a topology broadcast identifying itself and other nodes it has heard. Each interne

An internetworking node for providing internetworking services for mobile wireless nodes is disclosed. Each mobile wireless node is registered with at the most one internetworking node. Each mobile wireless node emits a topology broadcast identifying itself and other nodes it has heard. Each internetworking node uses these topology broadcasts to construct a table tracking each mobile node within its range, whether that mobile node is registered to that internetworking node and also a list of which other nodes that mobile wireless node can hear. The internetworking node determines which of these wireless nodes it will register. The internetworking node will then act for all wireless nodes registered to it in relaying messages between wireless nodes or between a wired LAN and the wireless nodes.

대표청구항 ▼

[ We claim:] [2.] A method for internetworking between wireless nodes comprising the steps of:(a) sending and receiving data between wireless nodes and internetworking nodes;(b) recognizing and storing received data which comprises a message from at least one other wireless node containing informati

[ We claim:] [2.] A method for internetworking between wireless nodes comprising the steps of:(a) sending and receiving data between wireless nodes and internetworking nodes;(b) recognizing and storing received data which comprises a message from at least one other wireless node containing information as to the address of such other wireless node,(c) broadcasting, by each wireless node, at the end of a period its own network address and a list of the network addresses of any other wireless nodes from which it has received a message within the period;(d) clearing, by each wireless node, the entire list of network addresses after performance of step (c);(e) recognizing and storing, by said internetworking nodes received data which comprises broadcast messages from wireless nodes containing information as to the network address of each such node and the other nodes from which it has received said message within said period;storing the address of wireless nodes for wireless nodes which an internetworking node has received a broadcast during the period;storing the list which each of the said wireless node also broadcasts; andregistering, some, none, or all of these wireless nodes.