SWRA615A June 2019 CC1352P , CC1352R , CC2530 , CC2531 , CC2538 , CC2652P , CC2652R , CC2652R7 , CC2652RB , CC2652RSIP
Distributed networks are formed by the first router that attempts to steer a network without the existence of a coordinator. As the network does not have a coordinator for a trust center, network keys are either received from the parent upon joining through a well-known Distributed Global Link Key, pre-configured, or received out-of-band by way of an install code. Devices in distributed networks will have a lifetime of approximately 4.3 billion packets since NWK keys are fixed and cannot be updated.