CPC H04W 76/18 (2018.02) [H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
1. In a mesh network of interconnected wireless nodes, each node independently managing a wireless connection to one or more other wireless nodes for transporting informational content, a method for stochastically refreshing and maintaining internode connections in a wireless mesh network, comprising:
periodically validating connections to other nodes in the mesh network based on an efficiency metric meeting a sufficient value and a completion of a handshake exchange for each node of a current topology of connected nodes for ensuring an efficiency of current connections;
removing, if a connection validation fails, the failed connection and adding a newly established connection from a set of available neighbor nodes;
if none of the current connections fails validation, detecting when one or more of the current connections have become stale, and if so, replacing a stochastically selected current connection with a newly established connection from the set of available neighbor nodes by
removing at least one of the current connections; and
adding a connection to another node by a perturbation operation for avoiding a passive dormancy of nodes which are either too distant for efficient communication or seldom active for information transmission.
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