SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILITY IN MULTIHOP NETWORKS
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Abstract
A network controller (NC) (105) that reduces the overhead exchanges for mobility events in a communications network is disclosed. Such a communications network is constituted by a wireless multihop communications network comprising a multihop chain (MH) (130) that wirelessly connects in series wireless communications entities (WCE) (110, 115) for relaying and the network controller as a first entity. Within the wireless multihop communications network a mobile node (MN) (125) wirelessly communicates with the wireless communications entity (115) located at the end of the multihop chain (130). In a communications network, the network controller (105) manages the multihop chain (130), and upon determining that the communications path has to be changed by a mobility event (ME) (141), it establishes a wireless communication between the mobile node (125) and a wireless communications entity (120) by expanding (132) the multihop chain (130).
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9 Claims
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1-7. -7. (canceled)
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8. A method of managing network conditions in a multihop communications network, comprising the step of:
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representing a single or plurality of network conditions; and assigning said representations to a set of communications entities comprising the multihop communications network, wherein said representing are adapted in response to mobility events within the multihop communications network. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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