A wire device receives: configuration parameters of: a primary cell with a primary physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); and a secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH; a transmit power control (TPC) radio network temporary identifier (RNTI); a primary TPC index of the primary PUCCH; and a secondary TPC index of the secondary PUCCH. The wireless device receives a downlink control information (DCI) associated with the TPC RNTI. The secondary TPC index identifies a TPC command in an array of TPC commands in the DCI. The wireless device adjusts a transmission power of the secondary PUCCH based on the TPC command.

A wireless multi-hope network of nodes including data nodes and at least one sink node. The data nodes include battery-powered nodes (BPNs) having active and sleep periods and mains-powered nodes (MPNs) having only active periods, wherein each data node transmits the packets only within corresponding active periods. A BPN includes a transceiver for transmitting and receiving data packets and a processor for determining a schedule of active and sleep periods of the BPN independently from the active and sleep periods of other data nodes in the network and independently from commands transmitted by the sink node, and a battery for providing energy to the transceiver and the processor. The processor switches the transceiver ON and OFF according to the schedule.

A wireless multi-hope network of nodes including data nodes and at least one sink node. The data nodes include battery-powered nodes (BPNs) having active and sleep periods and mains-powered nodes (MPNs) having only active periods, wherein each data node transmits the packets only within corresponding active periods. A BPN includes a transceiver for transmitting and receiving data packets and a processor for determining a schedule of active and sleep periods of the BPN independently from the active and sleep periods of other data nodes in the network and independently from commands transmitted by the sink node, and a battery for providing energy to the transceiver and the processor. The processor switches the transceiver ON and OFF according to the schedule.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a node in a wireless multi-hop network may identify a power supply category of the node based at least in part on a manner in which the node is supplied with power, wherein the power supply category indicates whether the node is supplied with power from an alternating current power supply or a battery power supply. The node may transmit a power status report to another node in the wireless multi-hop network, wherein the power status report indicates the power supply category of the node. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a node in a wireless multi-hop network may identify a power supply category of the node based at least in part on a manner in which the node is supplied with power, wherein the power supply category indicates whether the node is supplied with power from an alternating current power supply or a battery power supply. The node may transmit a power status report to another node in the wireless multi-hop network, wherein the power status report indicates the power supply category of the node. Numerous other aspects are provided.

An interactive software-based network design tool that may be used to simulate and view the operation of a wireless mesh device network used in a process plant, such as a wireless HART device network, allows a user to create a model of a wireless network, input several design requirements, and automatically generate and view communication routes and schedules for the wireless network. The network design tool provides an interactive graphic interface for the addition, removal, and positioning of nodes and devices within the wireless network and a menu including several interactive screens for specifying threshold values, network topology selections, routing preferences, and other configuration parameters related to generating and optimizing communication routes and schedules within the wireless mesh network. The network design tool automatically applies a set of optimization rules along with the parameters input by user to the network model in order to generate efficient network configuration data.

A portable information handling system includes a wireless network interface device that establishes communication with a network destination through a mesh network having plural network paths of one or more ad hoc network interfaces. A mesh network manager running on the portable information handling system retrieves network context information from nodes of the plural network paths and applies the network context information to determine energy consumption of the plural network paths. The mesh network manager selects a network path to communicate with the network destination based at least in part on the energy consumption associated with the plural network paths.

A method is provided for each router to individually manage retransmissions at run time in a single chip computer die or a single computer that includes cores or compute nodes and routers that interconnect the cores or the compute nodes. Each router compares static energy saving and dynamic energy increase from turning off a retransmission buffer of the router in a monitoring phase. When the static energy saving is greater than the dynamic energy increase, the router turns off the retransmission buffer in a subsequent monitoring phase. When the static energy saving is less than the dynamic energy increase, the router turns on the retransmission buffer in the subsequent monitoring phase.

A multi-hop heterogeneous wireless network is partitioned into a set of subnetworks including a first subnetwork having a first sink node and a second subnetwork having a second sink node. A node forms parts of the first and the second subnetworks and has different modes of operations (MOP) depending on the subnetwork. For example, the node has a first MOP specifying a type of the routing in the first subnetwork and a second MOP specifying a type of the routing in the second subnetwork. The node determines the MOD based on available routing resource of the node that is independent from the subnetwork and based on required routing resource that varies among the subnetworks. The node routs packets in the first subnetwork according to the first MOP and routing packets in the second subnetwork according to the second MOP.

A beam weight obtaining method and an apparatus. An aggregation path is generated by using energy of a plurality of paths to help improve quality of a generated beam, thereby improving an SNR and a capacity of a terminal device. The method includes: a network device obtains a plurality of paths that meet a multipath aggregation condition, where the multipath aggregation condition includes one or more of the following conditions: a condition that every two paths in the plurality of paths need to meet in space, and a condition that every two paths in the plurality of paths need to meet in power. The network device determines aggregation information based on the plurality of paths, where the aggregation information includes information required by the network device to generate an aggregation path corresponding to the plurality of paths.