Patent ID: 7620010
Filing Date: 2009-11-17
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication apparatus of a wireless communications network including multiple wireless communications apparatuses mutually connected via wireless links, the wireless communication apparatus comprising: a first buffer configured to store information received from an adjacent wireless communication apparatus; a second buffer configured to store information received from a user terminal controlled by the wireless communications apparatus; a routing control information processing unit configured to determine a node cost according to an amount of the information accumulated in the first buffer and the second buffer and a link cost of a transmission path between the wireless communications apparatus and the adjacent wireless communications apparatus, to produce cost information from the node cost and the link cost, and select a transmission path to a destination wireless communications apparatus for the information extracted from the first buffer such that the cost information of the selected transmission path is minimum in possible transmission paths to the destination wireless communications apparatus; and a routing control unit configured to designate a next hop in the selected transmission path to transmit the extracted information.