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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2008
Timothy J. Hughes, San Diego, CA (US);
Wendell Y. Kishaba, San Diego, CA (US);
Chau T. Trinh, Fullerton, CA (US);
Timothy J. Hughes, San Diego, CA (US);
Wendell Y. Kishaba, San Diego, CA (US);
Chau T. Trinh, Fullerton, CA (US);
Powerwave Cognition, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
In a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), multi-metric information is gathered and applied to a cost-based route calculation. In particular, each node gathers resource metrics from neighboring of nodes, along with data rate and reliability information for data links to and from the node. This information is applied to a costing algorithm such as Dykstra' Open Shortest Path First algorithm to obtain routes through the network. This approach may be adapted with suitable modifications to use with unicast traffic or with a multicast forwarding group.