Abstract: A method for manages routes in a wireless network of nodes by determining a distances between each pair of nodes in a set of nodes of a wireless network. The distances are maintained in a memory of a particular node of the wireless network as a distance map in a form of a wavelet, and routing a packet between the nodes is according to the distances stored as the wavelet.

Abstract: A method and system access a channel in a wireless network of nodes. A coordinator transmits periodically a beacon, in which time between two consecutive beacons constitute a beacon interval. The coordinator and other nodes transceive a superframe during the beacon interval, in which the superframe begins with an active interval, which is immediately followed by an inactive interval, and in which the active interval begins with a contention free period, which is immediately followed by a contention access period, which is immediately followed by the inactive interval.