APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR COOPERATIVELY UPDATING FIRMWARE ON A WIRELESS MESH NETWORK, PARTICULARLY FOR ENABLING THE UPDATING AND MAINTENANCE OF FIRMWARE STABLY

摘要

PURPOSE: An apparatus and a method for cooperatively updating firmware on a wireless mesh network are provided to reduce a bandwidth by updating a firmware through inter-node cooperation.;CONSTITUTION: When the updating of an execution code image for a target node in a mesh network is required, an update script generator(304) generates a code update script in reference to the execution code image of neighbor nodes and the execution code image of the target node stored in a code image DB(302). The update script generator updates the target node based on the code update script.;COPYRIGHT KIPO 2011