Patent ID: 9713144
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method by a network node for routing communications between pairs of source and destination nodes through network nodes of a wireless communication system, the method comprising: selecting one resource slot of a wireless communication link between each of a sequence of the network nodes along a communication route between one pair of the source and destination nodes; and selecting another resource slot of the wireless communication link between at least some of the sequence of the network nodes along the communication route between the one pair of the source and destination nodes; wherein the method further comprises: determining, for each of a plurality of pairs of nodes of the wireless communication system, at least one metric for each resource slot of a wireless communication link between the pair; and modifying at least one metric for at least one of the resource slots for at least one of the wireless communication links between the plurality of pairs of nodes, responsive to previous selections of resource slots; and wherein said selecting one resource slot and selecting another resource slot are based on the determined and modified metrics.