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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009

Filed:

Apr. 14, 2005
Applicants:

Shinji Takeda, Yokohama, JP;

Kengo Yagyu, Yokohama, JP;

Atsushi Fujiwara, Yokohama, JP;

Inventors:

Shinji Takeda, Yokohama, JP;

Kengo Yagyu, Yokohama, JP;

Atsushi Fujiwara, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A wireless communications apparatus used in a wireless communications network consisting of multiple wireless communications apparatuses mutually connected via wireless links includes (a) a buffer configured to temporarily store information received from an adjacent wireless communications apparatus or a user terminal located under the wireless communications apparatus; (b) a routing control information processing unit that estimates a node cost representing traffic at the wireless communications apparatus and a link cost representing a radio condition of the link to determine a transmission route based on cost information reflecting both the node cost and the link cost; and (c) a routing control unit that designates a next hop to which information accumulated in the buffer is to be transmitted according to the determined transmission route.


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