Patent ID: 7697952
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a communication network comprising a plurality of stations able to transmit data to and receive data from one another, the method comprising: a) transmitting data from an originating station to a destination station, either directly or via one or more intermediate stations; b) monitoring, at each station, the path quality between that station and each other station with which that station communicates; c) including, in each station's transmissions to other stations, path quality data corresponding to the monitored path quality between the respective stations; and d) monitoring, at each station, the transmissions of other stations communicating with each other, so that a first station monitoring a transmission from a second station to a third station can obtain path quality data relating to the transmission between the second and the third station.