NI WSN-9791 User Guide and Specifications
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Since each node joins a network instead of a particular router or gateway, it can find a new path back
to the gateway in the event that the signal is lost or blocked to its existing network route. In this way,
the mesh network is inherently self-forming and self-healing. However, this may also cause network
throughput to decrease, as there is no way to force a router or end node to join to a particular device in
the network. Each time a node joins through a router, the overall throughput of that node is halved, due
to the fact that the node must hop to get its messages back to the gateway. Figure 12 shows an example
of one possible mesh configuration.
Figure 12.
Mesh Configuration Example
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