公开(公告)号：US09264103B2

公开(公告)日：2016-02-16

申请号：US14010267

申请日：2013-08-26

Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED

Inventor： Kamaran Vijayasankar ,  Ramanuja Vedantham ,  Il Han Kim

IPC: H04B3/54

CPC classification number: H04B3/54 ,  H04B3/46 ,  H04B3/542 ,  H04B2203/5495

Abstract: Apparatus (and related methods) for a power line communication network include a processor configured to receive beacons over a communication interface. The processor determines a link quality indicator (LQI) for each received beacon and ignores the beacons for at most a predetermined maximum number of beacon receptions when each LQI is below a threshold. The processor responds to a received beacon if the LQI for such received beacon exceeds the threshold or if a predetermined maximum number of beacons have been received with LQIs below the threshold.