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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2007
Xiaohong Gong, Milpitas, CA (US);
Bretton Lee Douglas, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert B. O'hara, Jr., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brian Donald Hart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xiaohong Gong, Milpitas, CA (US);
Bretton Lee Douglas, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert B. O'Hara, Jr., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brian Donald Hart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A dynamic rate limiting mechanism for wireless mesh networks. In particular implementations, a method comprising monitoring one or more clients associated with a wireless mesh network and the respective hop counts of the clients to a root mesh node of the wireless mesh network; determining, responsive to one or more events, a client data rate for one or more clients of the wireless mesh network based on the number of current clients and the respective hop counts of the current clients; and applying the client data rate to the wireless mesh network.