AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

Alcatel Lucent

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Alcatel-lucent USA Inc.

Qunfeng Dong

Yigal Bejerano

Jia Wang

Suman Banerjee

The number of directional antennas and associated radios needed to ensure a nomadic wireless mesh network (NWMN) remains operational in the event of node or link failures, while minimizing delay and other unwanted effects, may be determined using novel methods and devices. Such a determination may reduce the number of antennas and radios a service or network provider normally uses, thus reducing its costs.

Methods and devices for providing robust nomadic wireless mesh networks using directional antennas

A method and apparatus for classifying packets, e.g., at wire speed are disclosed. The method receives a packet and processes the packet through a hardware-based packet classifier having at least one evolving rule. The method then processes the packet through a software-based packet classifier if the hardware-based packet classifier is unable to classify the packet. In one embodiment, the at least one evolving rule is continuously modified in accordance with learned traffic characteristics of the received packets.

Method and apparatus for classifying packets

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Madison, WI, United States of America

Qunfeng Dong