IMPROVED 802.11 MESH ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A wireless network device comprises a forwarding table and a mesh routing module. The forwarding table stores direct and reverse entries, each including a destination address, a next hop address, and a metric. The metric of the direct entries corresponds to a route from the wireless network device to the destination address. The metric of the reverse entries corresponds to a route from the destination address to the wireless network device. The mesh routing module wirelessly receives route discovery packets and creates corresponding entries in the forwarding table.