CPC H04L 45/32 (2013.01) [H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/20 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A mesh network communication protocol method, comprising:
receiving by a mesh network node, a received flood packet through the mesh network receiver from a sender mesh network node,
broadcasting by the mesh network node, a transmitted flood packet though a mesh network receiver;
marking a mesh network node as critical selectively dependent on whether it receives, in response the broadcasting of the transmitted flood packet, a received flood packet with an identifier of itself as a prior sender from which the sender received the packet;
marking the mesh network node as non-critical selectively dependent on whether it does not receive a packet with an identifier of itself as the prior sender;
employing the marking as being critical or as being non-critical to selectively determine forwarding behavior for received non-flood packets; and
rebroadcasting by the mesh network node, the flood packet, comprising an identity of the mesh network node replacing a received identifier of the sender, and the received identifier of the sender replacing a received identifier of the prior sender.
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