Patent ID: 9210096
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A routing method performed by one of a plurality of node equipments included in a network, the method comprising: receiving a first frame including a wait number information, incrementing the wait number information, and storing the incremented wait number information as local wait number information; transmitting the first frame including the local wait number information; receiving a second frame including a wait number information of a destination node equipment, and comparing the wait number information in the second frame and the local wait number information; transmitting the second frame to an adjacent node equipment having larger wait number information than the local wait number information, selectively, when the wait number information in the second frame is larger than the local wait number information; and returning the second frame to a source node equipment of the second frame, when the wait number in the second frame is larger than the local wait number but there is no adjacent node equipment having a larger wait number than the local wait number; transmitting the second frame to an adjacent node equipment having smaller wait number information than the local wait number information, selectively, when the wait number information in the second frame is smaller than the local wait number information; and returning the second frame to the source node equipment of the second frame, when the wait number in the second frame is smaller than the local wait number but there is no adjacent node equipment having a smaller wait number than the local wait number, wherein