Traffic policing in a mobile ad hoc network
First Claim
1. A method for policing traffic admission control in a mobile ad hoc network comprising a plurality of wireless mobile nodes and a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the plurality of nodes together, the method comprising:
- at each node, transmitting quality-of-service (QoS) route requests to discover traffic routing based upon a QoS parameter, the QoS route requests including a traffic flow identifier;
at each node, calculating a node QoS tag value to make traffic admission control decisions;
at each node, determining whether to admit traffic in response to QoS route requests based upon the calculated QoS tag value and the QoS parameter of QoS route requests;
at each node, replying to QoS route requests to indicate whether the node can support the QoS parameter of the route request and admit the traffic; and
at each node, policing admitted traffic based upon the traffic flow identifier to ensure that admitted traffic does not exceed the QoS parameter of the QoS route request.
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Abstract
The method includes nodes transmitting quality-of-service (QoS) route requests to discover traffic routing based upon a QoS parameter, and the QoS route requests including a traffic flow identifier. Each node calculates a node QoS tag value to make traffic admission control decisions, and each node determines whether to admit traffic in response to QoS route requests based upon the calculated QoS tag value and the QoS parameter of QoS route requests. Also, each node replies to QoS route requests to indicate whether the node can support the QoS parameter of the route request and admit the traffic, and each node polices admitted traffic based upon the traffic flow identifier to ensure that admitted traffic does not exceed the QoS parameter of the QoS route request.
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28 Claims
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1. A method for policing traffic admission control in a mobile ad hoc network comprising a plurality of wireless mobile nodes and a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the plurality of nodes together, the method comprising:
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at each node, transmitting quality-of-service (QoS) route requests to discover traffic routing based upon a QoS parameter, the QoS route requests including a traffic flow identifier;
at each node, calculating a node QoS tag value to make traffic admission control decisions;
at each node, determining whether to admit traffic in response to QoS route requests based upon the calculated QoS tag value and the QoS parameter of QoS route requests;
at each node, replying to QoS route requests to indicate whether the node can support the QoS parameter of the route request and admit the traffic; and
at each node, policing admitted traffic based upon the traffic flow identifier to ensure that admitted traffic does not exceed the QoS parameter of the QoS route request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 28)
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10. A method for policing traffic admission control in a mobile ad hoc network comprising a plurality of wireless mobile nodes and a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the plurality of nodes together, the method comprising:
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at each node, calculating a node quality-of-service (QoS) tag value to make traffic admission control decisions in response to QoS route requests to discover traffic routing based upon a QoS parameter, the QoS route requests including a traffic flow identifier;
at each node, determining whether to admit traffic in response to QoS route requests based upon the calculated QoS tag value and the QoS parameter of QoS route requests; and
at each node, policing admitted traffic based upon the traffic flow identifier to ensure that admitted traffic does not exceed the QoS parameter of the QoS route request. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A mobile ad hoc network comprising:
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a plurality of mobile nodes; and
a plurality of wireless communication links connecting the plurality of mobile nodes together;
each mobile node comprising a communications device to wirelessly communicate with other nodes of the plurality of nodes via the wireless communication links, and a controller to route communications via the communications device, and comprising a route discovery unit to transmit quality-of-service (QoS) route requests to other nodes to discover routing to a destination node based upon at least one QoS parameter, the QoS route requests including a traffic flow identifier, a QoS tag calculation unit to calculate a node QoS tag value to make traffic admission control decisions, and a traffic admission controller to determine whether to admit traffic in response to QoS route requests based upon the calculated QoS tag value and the QoS parameter of QoS route requests, a route request processing unit to reply to QoS route requests to indicate whether the node can support the QoS parameter of the route request and admit the traffic, and a traffic policing unit to police admitted traffic based upon the traffic flow identifier to ensure that admitted traffic does not exceed the QoS parameter of the QoS route request. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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