SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERNODAL INFORMATION ROUTING WITHIN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

摘要

A system and method for facilitating the routing of small information packages between nodes (N) in a network (100). In particular, the system and method of the present invention utilize a routing table (200) at each node (N) of the network. The routing table (200) for each node contains a list of the nodes, ordered the same in each table, and an indexing value is utilized to refer to particular node values. Internodal linkage information is also stored in the routing table along with an alternative link (210, 215) should the primary link (205) fail. The addition/deletion of nodes and the failure of any link is handled by an update function.