Patent ID: 8711818

Claim:
A data transport system for a wireless digital communication network comprising: at least two relay nodes, at least one Subnet Manager node, and at least one Flow Manager node, wherein said at least one Flow Manager node includes a home Flow Manager node connected to a first relay node serving as a source node; a second relay node serving as a destination node; a multipath tree rooted at the home Flow Manager node for data transport along one of at least two paths from said source node to the destination node; a Real-time Reservation Transport Protocol (RRTP) for Quality of Service data transport in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks from the source node to the destination node, said RRTP using in-band signaling by said home Flow Manager for making actual reservations of node resources along an active data transport path of the multipath tree and virtual reservations that can be dynamically switched to active status along at least one alternate data transport path of said multipath tree for said Quality of Service data transport.