Patent ID: 9712378
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H03M,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: aggregating, by a physical layer protocol, a plurality of wireless network links, the plurality of wireless network links including a first wireless network link and one or more second wireless network links, the first wireless network link being used by a first wireless network node to communicate with a second wireless network node; monitoring the first wireless network link, the monitoring occurring at a physical layer of a data access card in the first wireless network node; determining, at the physical layer of the data access card, whether there is a failure condition with respect to the first wireless network link; in response to the determining whether there is a failure condition, inserting information related to the failure condition into a header of one or more wireless network packets sent from the first wireless network node over the first wireless network link to the second wireless network node, the information related to the failure condition including a receive status indicating a receive status of the first wireless network node of one or more second wireless network packets sent from the second wireless network node; and when the header of the one or more wireless network packets sent from the first wireless network node over the first wireless network link to the second wireless network node indicates a receive failure by the first wireless network node, shifting the second wireless network node from the first wireless network link to the one or more second wireless network links.