Systems and methods for reconnecting a dropped wireless network node can include a wireless network that includes a gateway device, a parent node, a child node of the parent node, and a neighboring node of the child node. The child node or the gateway device can identify the child node disconnecting from the wireless network, cause a transmission of a reconnection message from one node to another node at a first transmit power level, cause an incremental increase of the first transmit power level to a second transmit power level when the transmission of the message at the first transmit power level fails to reconnect the child node to the wireless network, and cause a transmission of the reconnection message from the one node to the another node at the second transmit power level.