Abstract: A system and method for searching a communication bus or network for one or more Antenna Line Devices using a divide-and-conquer approach can efficiently identify devices on the network in a short period of time. A divide-and-conquer search over the desired address space of network devices may be assisted by intelligently updating queries used in the search to reduce unnecessary queries. The state of devices present on a subset of the network may be determined by intelligently analyzing responses to queries with respect to possible collision of the query responses. Repeated queries may be used to interrogate a network for devices in a significantly more efficient manner than by explicitly querying each possible address in the address space.