Patent ID: 7969942
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having a set of instructions stored therein which when executed by a processing device causes the processing device to perform traffic management procedures in a mesh network having a plurality of nodes each having multiple radio interfaces, the procedures comprising: between at least one pair of the nodes, establishing a respective collection of individual links, each link having a respective channel assignment; managing at least one of the collection of links as a corresponding single logical link having the capacity of the sum of the individual links of the collection; for at least one of the logical links, dynamically load balancing traffic across the individual links of the corresponding collection; for each logical link being dynamically load balanced, balancing the load at least in part based on the current utilization of each link of the corresponding collection; identifying particular flows within each of one or more classes of traffic flows; for each logical link being dynamically load balanced, balancing the load such that all traffic corresponding to a particular identified flow is steered over a respective selected one of the individual links; at the node where each particular identified flow first enters the mesh network, assigning the particular identified flow with a corresponding flow ID based on a selected one of the classes of traffic flows; and implementing the steering of each traffic flow based on its corresponding flow ID.