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Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2013
Applicant:

Arm Finland Oy, Oulu, FI;

Inventors:

Joni Piltonen, Oulu, FI;

Mikko Saarnivala, Oulu, FI;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for routing data packets. The solution in a communication network including a set of nodes, storing information regarding nodes of the network; and when transmitting a data packet to a destination node in the network, determining and including in the data packet the recipient identification; determining and including in the data packet the direction of the destination node in the network; determining and including in the data packet a hop count indicator indicating the number of node-to-node hops to the destination node; setting in the data packet the transmission direction indicator equal to a value corresponding to direction down and transmitting the packet.


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