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Method and apparatus for adapting a routing map for a wireless communications network

US6714787B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 17, 2002
Grant dateMar 30, 2004
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Expiry dateJan 24, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W40/248
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A wireless control unit (WCU) arranged and constructed to operate as a wireless router within a wireless network and to facilitate dynamic reconfiguration of a routing map within the wireless network and method thereof, the WCU including a receiver for receiving a presented load; a transmitter for transmitting a transmitted load; a controller for; scheduling the presented load to be transmitted on a number of wireless links with other nodes; and dynamically increasing or decreasing a number of wireless links with other nodes within the wireless network to increase a network capacity, decrease an average queue size at the WCU, decrease an average latency for the network, or decrease an average latency for a portion of the presented load that is destined for another WCU.

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