Patent ID: 8787350

Claim:
A method of operation of a wireless communication network comprising: communicatively coupling each radio of a first plurality of radios within an origination node to an associated radio of a plurality of radios within each of a plurality of neighbor nodes, thereby creating one or more communicatively coupled pair of radios; sending a message from each radio of the first plurality of radios of the origination node to each of the associated radios of the plurality of radios of each of the plurality of neighbor nodes, wherein the sent message comprises an advertisement that sets all routing metrics of a plurality of routing metrics to the originating node to zero; in response to the message received from the origination node, calculating, at each of the plurality of neighbor nodes, the routing metrics to the origination node, wherein the routing metrics account for a quantity of communicatively coupled pairs of radios between the neighbor node and the origination node; receiving the calculated routing metrics for each communicatively coupled pair of radios of each of the plurality of neighbor nodes from each of the plurality of neighbor nodes by the origination node; and selecting, by the origination node, a neighbor node and a communicatively coupled pair of radios between the selected neighbor node and the origination node for communication with the origination node based at least in part on the calculated routing metrics.