Patent ID: 9730136
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operation of a network node in a wireless network to provide distributed multi-hop route determination, comprising: identifying, by the network node, a subset of a plurality of neighbors of the network node in the wireless network based on: (a) first link weights for links from the network node to at least some of the plurality of neighbors of the network node with respect to one or more route metrics for a multi-hop route through the wireless network and (b) one or more defined limits for the one or more route metrics; obtaining, by the network node, second link weights for the links from the network node to at least the subset of the plurality of neighbors with respect to a second route metric for a multi-hop route through the wireless network; and identifying, by the network node, from the subset of the plurality of neighbors, an optimal next hop neighbor node for the network node in a multi-hop route through the wireless network based on the second link weights for the links from the network node to at least the subset of the plurality of neighbors with respect to the second route metric, wherein identifying the optimal next hop neighbor node comprises: