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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2007
Wenge Ren, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Frederick Dean, Wilmette, IL (US);
Cyrus Behroozi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Wenge Ren, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Frederick Dean, Wilmette, IL (US);
Cyrus Behroozi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tropos Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method of identifying long links within a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes identifying long links within a wireless network. The method includes a first node estimating a link quality of a wireless link between the first node and a second node of the wireless network. The first node uni-casts packets to the second node. The first node monitors a packet acknowledgment success rate. The first node identifies the wireless link to be a long link if the link quality is above a link threshold, and the packet acknowledgment success rate is below an acknowledgment threshold.