Patent ID: 8111622

Claim:
A communication method comprising: (a) receiving wireless data to be routed to a destination node; (b) determining an initial node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route; (c) determining a suitability indicator for at least one intermediate node on the initial, node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route, including: (i) receiving state information about the at least one intermediate node; (ii) using the state information and a look-up table, which has speed as an operand, to generate a location-dependent speed model and a vehicle-dependent speed model for the at least one intermediate node; and (iii) generating the suitability indicator for the at least one intermediate node using the location-dependent speed model and a vehicle-dependent speed model; (d) determining a suitability indicator for at least one outside node that is outside the initial node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route, including: (i) receiving a zone identifier from outside the initial node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route; (ii) generating a prediction of a node characteristic of the at least one outside node based on the zone identifier; and (iii) generating the suitability indicator for the at least one outside node based on the prediction of the node characteristic; (e) modifying the initial node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route to generate a node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route, including: (i) using the suitability indicator for the at least one intermediate node to exclude an intermediate node from the node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route; and (ii) using the suitability indicator for the at least one outside node to include an outside node on the node-speed-change-prediction-dependent signal route; and (f) routing the wireless data along the generated node-speed-change-prediction-denendent signal route.