無線マルチホップ・メッシュ・ネットワークにおけるアソシエーション、ルーティング、およびレート割当ての統合

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide integration of association, routing and rate allocation in a fair manner, regarding a wireless municipal mesh network.SOLUTION: The present invention includes collecting network information, determining an association, bandwidth allocation and routing scheme on the basis of the collected network information, notifying a mesh access point of the association, the bandwidth allocation and the routing scheme, and notifying a client node of association information. Also, the present invention includes measuring link quality and channel conditions, reporting the results to a controller, receiving a routing determination and data forwarding instructions from the controller and forwarding the routing determination and the data forwarding instructions to the client node.