A wire-less / Wired mesh network is described, using a multi-slot modular
mesh node to house diverse
transceiver elements (e.g. IR, Wi-Fi, Powerline). A radio agnostic
tree based mesh network is formed, based on what type of wire-less links are formed on the uplink and downlink of the backhaul and what type of radios etc are used for the Access Points AP, see FIG. 17,23.In addition to servicing IP based clients (e.g. Wi-Fi,
WiMax,
Bluetooth), the modular mesh nodes APs may also serve as receivers / collectors for low cost
chirp devices. These devices are not “agile” and therefore contentious. APs, servicing these devices, alleviate potential contention by multiple means including: sending out a “incoming” CTS, efficient delivery through container based schedulable
bus deliveries, and its reverse (moving
chirp transmission times to be sequential).Multiple approaches for “
pollen” to reach the intended “flower” in a timely manner are described. The method of transport is standard IP based packets yet security is inherent in this
pollen-flower based
system: only mesh nodes are privy to the routing tables that indicate that packet addresses are not IP. Multiple options to further obfuscate packet flow are presented.A multi-agent based approach driving
business process flow is described. Such agents can also provide specialized mesh
network routing e.g. navigation agents for
chirp devices.
Tree based routing and logical radio abstractions are revisited.An organic approach to providing category / class based form of
data type identification is proposed, to efficiently match publishers and subscribers, based on the type of data being sought. A private, secure and natively Publish / Subscribe M2M
community is engendered at the edge. It has loosely, dynamic and ad hoc couplings to
big data servers, also operating on their own private exchange /
market place, using a real time publish / subscribe infrastructure with content categories used as part of
pollen identification.