Patent ID: 7821935
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of an apparatus for managing a routing table, the method comprising: determining, by the apparatus, a route metric of a plurality of routing paths from a current node to a target node through a plurality of relay nodes, the route metric being an average amount of resources used for the plurality of routing paths from the current node to the target node; determining, by the apparatus, a traffic load rate, based on the routing metric, for the plurality of routing paths from the current node to the target node; receiving, by the apparatus, a multi-route metric from a relay node, the multi-route metric being an average amount of resources used for the plurality of routing paths from the relay node to the target node; determining, by the apparatus, a link metric with regard to a link between the current node and the relay node, the link metric being an amount of resources used for the link; updating, by the apparatus, a plurality of metrics included in the routing table based on the traffic load rate; and updating, by the apparatus, the routing table with the link metric with regard to the link between the current node and the relay node, the route metric with regard to the current node, the relay node, and the target node, and the multi-route metric received from the relay node.