Patent Document ID: 8325612
Application ID: 12779934
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for controlling an ad hoc network, comprising: providing an ad hoc communication node, adapted to communicate with a plurality of mobile remote ad hoc nodes of a mobile ad hoc multihop network; using a mobility-aware mesh construction algorithm implemented by an automated processor to at least approximate minimal data overhead forwarding meshes and to select between a plurality of alternate paths; and automatically adapting the mobility-aware mesh construction algorithm based on at least a reliability-dependent probabilistic path selection function dependent on at least a link duration and a number of available paths under current mobility conditions of the network, to: more probably select paths of said plurality of alternate paths having a low data-overhead responsive to an increase in a predicted reliability of the multihop mesh network, and less probably select paths having a short path length responsive to an increase in the predicted reliability of the multihop mesh network.