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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
John Featherston, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Christopher A. Archer, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
James M. Cicchiello, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Frederick D. Bean, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
John Featherston, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Christopher A. Archer, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
James M. Cicchiello, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Frederick D. Bean, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
A free-space optical (FSO) transceiver can include a link predictor configured to estimate conditions for an FSO link over a window of time in the future. The FSO transceiver can also include a scheduler configured to assign outgoing packets to blocks of time in the window of time based on quality of service (QoS) parameters of each of the outgoing packets and on conditions in each block of time in the window of time.