Lucent Technologies Inc.

Mrl Laboratories, LLC

Prasun Sinha

Ramachandran Ramjee

Son K Dao

Danny Raz

Yuval Shavitt

Srikanth V Krishnamurthy

Sneha Kasera

A network node computes a fair share data rate for the sharing of a shared communication channel in a local area network. The network node determines the required information for computing the fair share by snooping the network, by receiving the required information from other network nodes, or a combination of the two techniques. Alternatively, instead of computing the fair share data rate, the network node may receive the fair share data rate which was computed by another network node. The fair share data rate is enforced by the network node in a network protocol stack layer above the media access control layer. In one embodiment, the network protocol stack layer above the media access control layer is the link layer.

Fair sharing of multi-access channels

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for extending a zone routing protocol. The invention is configured to provide a robust scalable framework for routing data in wireless ad-hoc networks when unidirectional linksare present. When the reverse path from a destination node (the tail) of a unidirectional linkto the originating node (the head) of the link is beyond a designated length, the invention is configured to revert to an on-demand search mechanism. The on-demand search mechanism recursively attempts to build a path to the destinationby recognizing nodes that have a route to the destination.

Scalable unidirectional routing with zone routing protocol extensions for mobile AD-HOC networks

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