Patent ID: 9344950
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, from a source node device by a first intermediate node device that comprises a processor, via a wide beam optical communication interface, a first data packet comprising a first radio link quality metric value associated with a radio link connecting the source node device and a destination node device; determining, by the first intermediate node device, a second radio link quality metric value associated with forwarding the first data packet; comparing, by the first intermediate node device, the first radio link quality metric value to the second radio link quality metric value, resulting in a comparison value; and forwarding the first data packet, by the first intermediate node device, to the destination node device via the wide beam optical communication interface in response to a condition associated with time being determined to be inversely proportional to the comparison value being determined to have been satisfied.