Patent ID: 8130654
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A communication system, comprising: devices in a network that are configured to collect and store a dynamic network context by exchanging environment context packets and flow context packets with neighboring devices, wherein the environment context packets include information for routing and scheduling, and the flow context packets include information for forwarding a specific end-to-end data flow between two end-point devices in the network; wherein the devices are configured to use the dynamic network context to determine how network resources for the end-to-end data flow are assigned during communication; wherein the communication involves context-aware switching of data packets in the data flow; wherein the data packets include context-dependent parameters which depend on payloads in the data packets; and wherein, after the data flow has been established, the devices are configured to exclude constant field values, which are associated with multiple protocol layers in a network protocol stack, from the data packets, thereby reducing overhead associated with the information flow.