Patent ID: 7035221
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A radio network comprising: at least one core node connected to a wired network; relay nodes, each of the relay nodes relaying at least one of a down-link data packet transmitted from the core node and an up-link data packet directed toward the core node; a terminal station transmitting and receiving at least one data packet to/from the core node and at least one relay node, the at least one relay node relaying the up-link data packet to at least one other up-link relay node and the core node when the up-link data packet addressed to an own node is received, and relaying a down-link data packet to at least one down-link relay node when the down-link data packet address to the own node is received, wherein the at least one core node transmits a route setting packet, said route setting packet includes: sender node identification information; an up-link receiver side relay node; and a metric indicative of an amount providing criteria for selecting the up-link receiver side node.