Patent ID: 6898437
Filing Date: 2005-05-24
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a communication network comprising a plurality of stations able to transmit data to and receive data from one another, the method comprising; monitoring, at each station, the path quality between that station and each other station with which that station communicates; recording, at each station, path quality data corresponding to the path quality associated with each said other station; setting, at each station, a transmission power value based on the recorded path quality data associated with a selected other station when transmitting data to said selected other, station, thereby to increase the probability of transmitting data to said selected other station at an optimum power level; and transmitting path quality data corresponding to the path quality between a first and a second station when transmitting other data between the stations, so that path quality data recorded at the first station is communicated to the second station for use by the second station and vice versa, wherein each station monitors the transmissions of other stations to obtain path quality data therefrom, so that a first station monitoring a transmission from a second station within range of the first station to a third station out of range of the first station can obtain path quality data relating to the third station.