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Fast-tracking approach for building routing topologies in fast-moving networks

US8718055B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 25, 2012
Grant dateMay 6, 2014
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Expiry dateAug 10, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L45/54
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In one embodiment, a local node in a communication network determines a set of its neighbor nodes, and determines a respective occurrence frequency at which each particular neighbor node is to be probed based on a rate of change in distance between the local node and the particular neighbor node. The local node may then probe each particular neighbor node according to the respective occurrence frequency to determine the rate of change in distance between the local node and each particular neighbor node, and one or more routing metrics for reaching each particular neighbor node. As such, the local node may select, based on the probing, a suitable preferred next-hop node of the set of neighbor nodes for a corresponding routing topology.

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