Patent ID: 8570892

Claim:
A method for computing a stability of a given link in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), comprising: a device for computing a link stability indicator (LSI) metric as a function of a weighted moving average over time of a delta difference of a link congestion indicator (LCI), a delta difference of a link quality indicator (LQI) and a mobility state, wherein the link stability indicator (LSI) metric is computed as: LSI ij ( t )=( w 1 ΔLCI WMA ( t ), w 2 ΔLQI WMA ( t ), w 3 m i , w 4 m i ) where: ΔLCI WMA (t)—Weighted moving average of ΔLCI ΔLQI WMA (t)—Weighted moving average of ΔLQI m i , =mobility i =(#i's good links)/(# i's link changes).