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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR END-TO-END LINK QUALITY INDICATION

  • US 20150304871A1
  • Filed: 07/02/2015
  • Published: 10/22/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A mechanism for a composite end-to-end link quality indication, comprising:

  • a wireless router, coupled to other wireless routers over a multi-hop mesh network, responsive to a first message received from an origination device, configured to forward said first message to a next one of said other wireless routers in route to a destination device, said wireless router comprising;

    received signal strength indication (RSSI) logic, configured to add first RSSI information to a first field of said first message, and configured to add second RSSI information to a second field of an acknowledgement message prior to transmitting said acknowledgement message to said origination device;

    wherein said first and second RSSI information, along with intermediate RSSI information added by one or more of said other wireless routers along a path from said origination device to said destination device, is aggregated into a single term representative of total round-trip quality for said first message and said acknowledgment message.

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