| US 7,545,765 B2 | ||
| Multi-user diversity forwarding | ||
| Peter Larsson, Solna (Sweden); and Niklas Johansson, Sollentuna (Sweden) | ||
| Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (Sweden) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 08, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/729,846. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/461839, filed on Apr. 11, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0233918 A1, Nov. 25, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04Q 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—328 [370/389; 370/465; 709/238] | 46 Claims |
| 1. A method for forwarding information in a multi-hop network having multiple nodes, said method comprising the steps of:
jointly selecting, for at least one transmitting node, i) relay node among multiple relay candidate nodes and ii) at least
one of:
a) destination among multiple destinations represented in the transmit queue of said at least one transmitting node; and
b) flow among multiple flows represented in said at least one transmitting node;
selecting a set of information from the transmit queue of said at least one transmitting node based on at least one of selected
destination and flow; and
transmitting the selected set of information to the selected relay node
wherein said method further comprises the steps of:
said at least one transmitting node transmitting an interrogation message to said multiple relay candidate nodes in the network;
and
each one of said multiple relay candidate nodes replying, in response to said interrogation message, with a response message
for said at least one transmitting node; and
wherein said step of jointly selecting is performed at least partly based on said response messages from said multiple relay
candidate nodes.
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