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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2005
Guenael T. Strutt, Sanford, FL (US);
Charles R. Barker, Jr., Orlando, FL (US);
William Vann Hasty, Jr., Lake Mary, FL (US);
Avinash Joshi, Orlando, FL (US);
Sebnem Z. Ozer, Altamonte Springs, FL (US);
Guenael T. Strutt, Sanford, FL (US);
Charles R. Barker, Jr., Orlando, FL (US);
William Vann Hasty, Jr., Lake Mary, FL (US);
Avinash Joshi, Orlando, FL (US);
Sebnem Z. Ozer, Altamonte Springs, FL (US);
MeshNetworks, Inc., Maitland, FL (US);
Abstract
A system and method that creates an abstraction of the physical layer of a wireless communication network (), in particular, a wireless ad-hoc peer-to-peer communication network (), and that normalizes the feedback from the physical layer to enable multiple types of nodes () in the wireless network to operate using a common wireless routing protocol. This routing protocol uses a link quality metric to determine the best route regardless of how it actually chooses the route or disseminates such link quality information. The generalized routing metric can be derived for any node (), regardless of its relative performance or its media access control (MAC) technology. The system and method also create a transaction summary that can be used for link adaptation and link quality estimation to determine, for example, future data rates, link quality/routing metrics, and transmit powers.