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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2015
Electro-motive Diesel, Inc., LaGrange, IL (US);
Mark Alan Fanara, Blue Springs, MO (US);
Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc., LaGrange, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of communicating between a source node and a target node includes, for each of a plurality of paths between the target node and the source node, determining a total number of intermediary nodes and an expected data rate. The method also includes identifying each of the plurality of paths for which the total number of intermediary nodes is equal to or below a ceiling number as a first group of paths and identifying each of the plurality of paths for which the expected data rate is equal to or exceeds a threshold data rate as a second group of paths. A preferred path is used to communicate between the target node and the source node, the preferred path being included in the first group of paths and the second group of paths.