NEIGHBOR DISCOVERY AND NEIGHBOR SELECTION OF MESH NETWORK DEVICES IN A MESH NETWORK

• Main Authors: LIU, Jungtao, PRICE, Andrew David, CHAN, Sheung Mei, JOSHI, Avinash, GOPALAKRISHNAN, Varadarajan, YOSHIDA, Lori
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 25.03.2020
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN) in which one network hardware devices includes multiple radios. A processing device of a first network hardware device receives, via a first radio, a beacon frame from a second mesh network device, scans, via a second radio, for a second mesh frame of the second mesh network device, and receives the mesh frame. The processing device determines a first sector identifier that identifies an antenna from which the mesh frame is transmitted, a first signal strength indicator value corresponding to the mesh frame, an unused radio and an unused channel of the second mesh network device. The processing device sends a first message to the unused radio of the second mesh network device on the unused channel via the second radio, receives a second message, and configures the multiple radios to communicate with the second mesh network device.