ADDRESSING AND ROUTING IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS

摘要

The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for forwarding and/or addressing a packet in a wireless network, wherein an address information of a protocol layer lower than a network layer is added to the packet, which address in-formation indicates the geographical location of a destination node and which can be changed during forwarding of the packet through said wireless network. The packet is then forwarded within the wireless network based on a difference be-tween the geographical location of a present node and the destination node. This location based addressing makes packet forwarding easier in dynamic mesh net-works, because each node (10) can decide into which direction to forward incom-ing packets based only on the information in the packet header and its own loca-tion.