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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
May. 29, 2020
Hassan Halabian, Kanata, CA;
Mehdi Arashmid Akhavain Mohammadi, Ottawa, CA;
Hassan Halabian, Kanata, CA;
Mehdi Arashmid Akhavain Mohammadi, Ottawa, CA;
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for routing packets in a network, such as a satellite mesh network. Geographic routing is employed in which packets specify their physical destination location. Network nodes maintain physical location information for nodes, along with routing information, for a limited portion of the network which is local thereto. At each node and for each packet, a target node is selected from the limited portion. The target node may be the node which is closest in orthodromic distance to the physical destination location. Based on the routing information, a route through the limited portion of the network to the target node is determined, other nodes are configured (e.g. via source routing) to cause the packet to traverse the determined route, and the packet is forwarded toward the target node.