Patent ID: 9369351
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06N,H04L,H04W,Y04S

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: collecting statistical information relating to one or both of communication link quality or channel quality in a frequency-hopping network, in which packets are sent according to a frequency-hopping schedule that defines one or more timeslots, each timeslot corresponding to a transmission frequency; predicting a performance metric of a particular transmission frequency corresponding to a scheduled timeslot based on the collected statistical information, wherein the predicted performance metric is a transmission success rate of a particular communication link using the particular transmission frequency; and determining, based on the predicted performance metric, whether a transmitting node in the frequency-hopping network should transmit a packet during the scheduled timeslot using the particular transmission channel or wait until a subsequent timeslot to transmit the packet using another transmission frequency.