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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2022
Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, MD (US);
Rob Torres, New Market, MD (US);
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Germantown, MD (US);
Abstract
A method and system for simplifying interactions of a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller including: receiving a network program to traverse a mobile node network including mobile nodes and ground nodes, wherein the ground nodes include an ingress node and an egress node; forecasting links, based on a temporal line-of-sight topology, of the mobile node network between the mobile nodes and the ground nodes; determining network program subfunctions that reflect an availability of the links for a time period; selecting, for the time period, a viable path including one or more of the network program subfunctions to traverse from the ingress node to the egress node; and communicating network traffic from the ingress node to the egress node using the viable path during the time period, wherein a portion of the viable path traverses one or more of the mobile nodes and the mobile nodes move along deterministic paths.