Patent ID: 9426040
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06N,H04L,H04W,Y04S

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: determining a routing topology of a network including nodes interconnected by communication links; monitoring activity in the network to determine a normal behavior of the communication links; detecting weak communication links in the network that deviate from the determined normal behavior; determining whether the weak communication links are spatially correlated based on the determined topology of the network; in response to the weak communication links being spatially correlated, identifying a region of the network affected by the weak communication links as a dark zone that is to be substantially avoided when routing data packets in the network; identifying one or more nodes in the network substantially within the dark zone; and sending an instruction to the one or more nodes to locally reroute a data packet received by the one or more nodes, such that the dark zone is substantially avoided when forwarding the data packet.