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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2006
Sean A. Ramprashad, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christine Pepin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ulas C. Kozat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sean A. Ramprashad, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christine Pepin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ulas C. Kozat, Mountain View, CA (US);
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Wireless access efficiency is improved in a multi-hop, multiple-flow network by optimizing multi-flows over the entire network using joint routing and traffic-shaping techniques at intermediate hops. Even though the joint routing and traffic-shaping techniques may adversely affect flows at some hops, when considered over multiple hops (for a given flow) and over multiple flows (for a given hop or number of hops), significant performance may be achieved for all flows. System performance is achieved by controlling the routing paths of multiple flows in a multi-hop, multi-flow wireless network, and applying traffic shaping in a systematic way, rather than relying on an opportunistic (i.e., randomly or independently optimized) approach.