Patent ID: 8693345

Claim:
A topology management system for mobile ad hoc wireless communication networks comprising: A plurality of mobile nodes organized in a multiple level hierarchical mobile ad hoc network, wherein nodes at each level are managed by nodes at the next higher level; at least two priority-based backbone tree paths dynamically constructed of said mobile network nodes for traffic flow, said priority-based backbone tree paths including at least one primary backbone tree path for high priority traffic flow and at least one secondary backbone tree path for low priority traffic flow, said primary backbone tree path construction preceding said secondary backbone tree path construction and said high priority and low priority traffic transmitted simultaneously over said respective primary and secondary backbone tree paths, and wherein priority-aware traffic load balancing between said primary and secondary backbone tree paths is achieved using a dynamically adjustable Dynamic Priority Threshold (DPT) value separating the high priority traffic from the low priority traffic; and means for dynamically maintaining the connectivities of the multiple backbone tree paths and high priority traffic flows during the changing topologies of the mobile ad hoc network.