Patent ID: 9674073
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of selecting a route for a data transmission flow in a communication network, comprising: defining a first route from a sender to a receiver comprising at least a first link having a first link metric, and a second route from the sender to the receiver comprising at least a second link having a second link metric; determining a value of at least the first link metric based on a cross-correlation value representing an evaluated change that would occur in the first link metric value if a data flow would already use a link in the communication network other than the first link due to the first link and the other link transmitting on different channels or accessing common resources; comparing route metrics for the first and second routes, the route metrics based on the link metric values of the links comprising the routes; and calculating a corrected cross-correlation value σ where g and h are functions, α wherein one or more method steps are performed by a computational circuit associated with a network node.