Patent ID: 7508765
Filing Date: 2009-03-24
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A network status reporting method for reporting in a communications network a network status information to a data source with an adaptive transmission rate in order to enable said data source to adapt said transmission rate based on said network status information, said communications network further comprising at least one intermediate network node, and a data sink, wherein only said data sink reports to said data source on said network status information of said communications network in a neighbourhood around the data sink, wherein said report of the data sink is forwarded via the at least one intermediate network node, wherein no intermediate network node reports to said data source on a network status information of said communications network in a neighbourhood around the at least one intermediate network node, wherein said communications network is a heterogeneous network comprising at least two different networks at least one of which comprises the data sink and at least one intermediate node from the at least one intermediate network node and is not configured to perform available bit rate control technique, and wherein the data sink initiates said reporting of the network status information of said communications network in the neighbourhood around the data sink to said data source without a request from said data source.