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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2007
Niky Riga, Allston, MA (US);
Abraham I. Matta, Wayland, MA (US);
Alberto Antonio Medina, Arlington, MA (US);
Craig Partridge, East Lansing, MI (US);
Jason Keith Redi, Belmont, MA (US);
Isidro Marcos Castineyra, Somerville, MA (US);
Niky Riga, Allston, MA (US);
Abraham I. Matta, Wayland, MA (US);
Alberto Antonio Medina, Arlington, MA (US);
Craig Partridge, East Lansing, MI (US);
Jason Keith Redi, Belmont, MA (US);
Isidro Marcos Castineyra, Somerville, MA (US);
Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a transport protocol and associated methods and stack architectures for improving the energy efficiency of transmitting packets through an ad hoc network. The protocol controls transmissions by taking into account per-packet energy limits, per-node loss tolerances, and/or minimum availability rates determined based on path quality measurements collected by packets traversing the network and application reliability requirements associated with various applications.