Patent ID: 7561514

Claim:
A system for capacity analysis of a link among a plurality of links in an ad hoc wireless network, the system comprising: a traffic lay-down utility configured to determine the traffic demand over the link among the plurality of links defining a wireless network at a time t 1 ; a topology agent, the topology agent being configured to output a network topology at a time t 1 ; and an analysis agent, the analysis agent being configured to: calculate an amount of accumulated traffic over the link; calculate a link capacity for the link; determine a delay threshold of the link; determine a rate of change of an expected value of a delay with respect to a link utilization of the link; determine an acceleration of the expected value of a delay with respect to a link utilization of the link; and determine whether the link is optimal by comparing the link against the remaining links of the plurality of links; whereby the analysis agent is configured to determine the health of the link at time t 1 based on the amount of accumulated traffic over the link, the link capacity, the delay threshold, the rate of change of an expected value of a delay with respect to a link utilization, the rate of change of the rate of change of the expected value of the delay with respect to the link utilization, and the comparison of the link against the remaining links of the plurality of links.