Patent ID: 7007102

Claim:
A method for controlling traffic admission in a mobile ad hoc network comprising a plurality of wireless mobile nodes and a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the plurality of nodes together, the method comprising: at each node, transmitting quality-of-service (QoS) route requests to discover traffic routing based upon a QoS parameter; at each node, calculating a node QoS tag value to make traffic admission control decisions, the node QoS tag value being a function of at least one node specific QoS metric; at each node, determining whether to admit traffic in response to QoS route requests based upon the calculated QoS tag value and the QoS parameter of QoS route requests; and at each node, replying to QoS route requests via respective route request replies to indicate whether the node can support the QoS parameter of the QoS route request and admit the traffic, including indicating in a respective route request reply what QoS level the node can support for the traffic of the QoS route request based upon the node QoS tag value, when the node cannot support the QoS parameter of the route request.