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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2003
C. David Young, Plano, TX (US);
C. David Young, Plano, TX (US);
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
A communications system is disclosed. The communication system includes a plurality of transceiver nodes configured to utilize a time division multiple access structure to communicate between the transceiver nodes. Each of the transceiver nodes generates congestion metric information based on the utilization of a link to each of its neighbors. A time division multiple access structure that includes a plurality of time slots during which the transceiver nodes are configured to communicate data cells is also disclosed. The data cells are transmitted from a transmission queue. The data cells include routing information and the congestion metric information.