US 12,414,027 B2
Reliable and security-aware communication in a hybrid wireless network
Octavio Alejandro Santana Arnaiz, Sr., Eindhoven (NL); Xiangyu Wang, Eindhoven (NL); Armand Michel Marie Lelkens, Heerlen (NL); and Leendert Teunis Rozendaal, Valkenswaard (NL)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/926,288
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed May 31, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/064534
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/245019, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20177738 (EP), filed on Jun. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0217344 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 40/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 40/04 (2013.01) [H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A node for communication in a wireless system, the node comprising:
a controller configured to determine a default communication mode out of multiple communication modes according to a role assigned to the node, wherein the role is related to an activity to be carried out by the node and the multiple communication modes comprises:
a first communication mode capable to support a mesh or tree topology with multi-hop routing, according to a first communication technology, and
a second communication mode capable to support a star topology with a point-to-point connection, according to a second communication technology;
a radio unit (210) configured to:
operate in the first communication mode as the default communication mode, and upon an instruction from the controller, switch to the second communication mode and send a notification message in the second communication mode, and then switch back to the first communication mode;
wherein the controller is further configured to:
generate the instruction to switch from the first communication mode to the second communication mode according to a security level of a data or control packet received by the radio unit in the first communication mode or generated by the node itself.