Patent ID: 7664037
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A multichannel mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes that communicate over one or more of a plurality of communication channels, wherein the nodes generate channel-metric matrices for destination nodes of the network, the channel-metric matrices identifying next hop nodes for each of a plurality of bottleneck channels, wherein source nodes tag originating packets to identify one of the bottleneck channels associated with a destination node of the originating packets, wherein intermediate nodes select a next-hop node and one of the communication channels for forwarding received packets from one of the channel-metric matrices based on the destination node and the bottleneck channel identified within the received packets, wherein the bottleneck channel for a destination node is a channel having a minimum channel metric vector, wherein use of the bottleneck channel is in forwarding packets to the destination node is minimized.