Patent ID: 11876619
Assignee: ITRON, GLOBAL SARL
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. One or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed, instruct one or more processors of a network communication device to perform operations comprising:
at a first layer of a protocol stack triggering a communication of data, by a first node and via a communication link between the first node and a second node, with the second node:
determining first link quality data for a first link associated with the communication of the data at a second layer of the protocol stack, wherein the second layer is lower than the first layer;
determining second link quality data for a second link associated with the communication of the data at the second layer of the protocol stack;
maintaining the first link quality data and the second link quality data at the first layer of the protocol stack; and
determining which of the first link and the second link to use based on the first link quality data and the second link quality data,
wherein the first link quality data and the second link quality data include at least communication metric data for the communication of data at the second layer of the protocol stack for a plurality of different modulation schemes.