Patent ID: 7852816

Claim:
A method for transmitting packets between terminals belonging to a mobile ad-hoc network, the method comprising: exchanging, by terminals in an ad-hoc network, information about a number of packets to be transmitted and a number of continuous transmission failures between the terminals; determining, at each terminal, an inter-terminal transmission priority based on the information about the number of packets to be transmitted and the number of continuous transmission failures; and transmitting and receiving, at each terminal, packets according to the determined transmission priority, wherein the exchanging comprises transmitting, between the terminals, an Ad-hoc Traffic Indication Message (ATIM) frame comprising the information about the number of packets to be transmitted and the number of continuous transmission failures, and wherein determining the inter-terminal transmission priority comprises assigning a higher transmission priority to a terminal having a smaller final priority value calculated by the following equation: TOTAL PRI=NUM/10 pri , where TOTAL PRI is a final priority value, NUM is the number of packets to be transmitted, and PRI is the number of continuous transmission failures.