Mesh connectivity establishment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11375555-B2
Application number	US-202016921833-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2020
Priority date	Jul 3, 2019
Publication date	Jun 28, 2022
Grant date	Jun 28, 2022

Abstract

Methods and computer software are disclosed for establishing mesh connectivity. In one embodiment the method includes advertising, by a first Converged Wireless System (CWS) the presence of a mesh; detecting, by a second CWS, the presence of the mesh being advertised by a first CWS; performing, by the second CWS, secure certificate based authentication with the first CWS; and allocating, by the second CWS, an Internet Protocol (IP) address over the mesh and using the IP address as a logical address in an IP domain.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for establishing mesh connectivity at a base station, the method comprising:
advertising, by a first base station, the presence of a mesh;
detecting, by a second base station, the presence of the mesh being advertised by the first base station;
performing, by the second base station, secure certificate based authentication with the first base station;
allocating, by the second base station, an Internet Protocol (IP) address over the mesh and using the IP address as a logical address in an IP domain; and
moving, by the first base station, an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) connection to a coordinating server, and the coordinating server retrieving or generating a configuration for the second base station.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the secure certificate based authentication is performed using a mechanism based on Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS).

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising starting a gateway services trigger by performing backhaul bandwidth estimation and traffic shaping.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising performing Heterogeneous Network (HNG) steering.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising connecting the first base station to the second base station over the mesh.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising the first base station learning a second coordinating server to host the second base station over the meshing protocol.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the first base station learning about a neighboring node's ANR table and backhaul capacity over the mesh.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising relaying the neighboring node's ANR Table and backhaul capacity to a serving coordinating server.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions for establishing mesh connectivity, comprising:
advertising, by a first base station, the presence of a mesh;
detecting, by a second base station, the presence of the mesh being advertised by the first base station;
performing, by the second base station, secure certificate-based authentication with the first base station;
allocating, by the second base station, an Internet Protocol (IP) address over the mesh and using the IP address as a logical address in an IP domain; and
moving, by the first base station, an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) connection to a coordinating server, and the coordinating server retrieving or generating a configuration for the second base station.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , further comprising instructions wherein the secure certificate-based authentication is performed using a proprietary mechanism based off Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS).

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 further comprising instructions for starting a gateway services trigger by performing backhaul bandwidth estimation and traffic shaping.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 11 , further comprising instructions for performing Heterogeneous Network Gateway (HNG) steering.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 12 , further comprising instructions for connecting the first base station to the second base station over the mesh.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions for the first base station learning a second coordinating server to host the second base station over the meshing protocol.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 9 , further comprising instructions for the first base station learning about one or more of a neighboring node's ANR table and backhaul capacity over the mesh.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15 , further comprising instructions for relaying the neighboring node's ANR table and backhaul capacity to a serving coordinating server.

Assignees

• Parallel Wireless Inc

Inventors

• Garg Sumit
• Kumar Gaurav

Classifications

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title

• H04L63/166

  at the transport layer · CPC title

• H04L61/5007

  Internet protocol [IP] addresses · CPC title

• H04W8/005

  Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals · CPC title

• H04W92/20

  between access points · CPC title