Disclosed is a method for selecting a path in a communication network. The method comprises transmitting, through a device connected to a target node, a beacon, to one or more nodes in the communication network. The beacon comprises a set of informative parameters. The method comprises calculating, by each node, a selective score towards one more paths to be selected for reaching the target node in the communication network. The method further comprises identifying, by each node, a target path from the one or more path. The target path is a path having a highest value of the selective score as compared to selective score for other paths in the one or more paths. The method further comprises selecting, by each node, the target path from the one or more paths for reaching the target node.

A method where a first network node receives from a second network node a packet with a path identifier value in the header. A plurality of bearers associated with the path are determined based on the path identifier value and used to assign at least one resource to the packet before it is transmitted to a third network node based on the at least one resource.

A communication method includes receiving a first packet from a second node, where the first packet includes an identifier of the second node, a first identifier, and an identifier of a receiving node; determining, based on the first packet, whether the first node is the receiving node; and determining a first routing table based on the first packet in response to a determination being made that the first node is not the receiving node, where the first routing table is used for data routing to the receiving node.

A control signal used for selecting a parent node in a tree route is transmitted from a first wireless node among a plurality of wireless nodes which constitute a backhaul network. Second wireless nodes each select, as a parent node, one of transmission source nodes of a plurality of control signals on the basis of an index indicating the radio wave propagation quality of a route through which each of the control signals received from different route has been propagated. Fixed wireless nodes among the second wireless nodes each transmit the received control signal to the other second wireless nodes, and a movable wireless node among the second wireless nodes terminates the received control signal.

According to one embodiment, a wireless relay device in a multi-hop network including at least a gateway device, the wireless relay device comprises a determination unit configured to determine whether a wireless device connected to the wireless relay device supports a routing protocol of the multi-hop network, and a notification unit configure to notify the gateway device or another wireless relay device in the multi-hop network of information for identifying the wireless device when the determination unit determines that the wireless device does not support the routing protocol.

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for evaluating connections between nodes in a mesh network. The technique includes computing a second accumulated uplink message success rate based on a first accumulated uplink message success rate and a second accumulated downlink message success rate based on a first accumulated downlink message success rate. The first accumulated uplink message success rate indicates a probability of successfully transmitting messages from a second node to a target destination and the second accumulated uplink message success rate indicates a probability of successfully transmitting messages from the first node to the target destination via a direct connection from the first node to the second node. The first accumulated downlink message success rate indicates a probability of successfully receiving messages transmitted by the target destination at the second node and the second accumulated downlink message success rate indicates a probability of successfully receiving messages transmitted by the target destination at the first node via the direct connection.

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for sidelink (SL) based multi-hop UE relaying, for example, to support tracking applications are provided. One method may include determining, at a user equipment (UE), to which tier of a sidelink (SL) based multi-hop user equipment (UE) relaying the user equipment (UE) belongs. The method may also include determining at least a relaying mode and arrangement of transmit and receive occasions for sidelink (SL) transmission and reception in dependence on the determined tier that the user equipment (UE) belongs, and performing, on the determined transmit and receive occasions, transmit and receive operations for the sidelink (SL) based multi-hop user equipment (UE) relaying based on the determined relaying mode and arrangement.

A control method to be performed by a first mobile node disconnected from a mobile line among a plurality of mobile nodes each being connectable to the mobile line includes: transmitting and receiving a mobile line connection status to and from each of one or more second mobile nodes via near-field wireless communication; building a MANET with the one or more second mobile nodes based on a first mobile line connection status of the first mobile node and a second mobile line connection status of each of the one or more second mobile nodes; generating, after the building of the MANET, first transaction data including at least first MANET routing information that indicates the MANET connection status of the first mobile node; and recording a block including the first transaction data into a first distributed ledger that is used for a blockchain in the MANET.

This application discloses a multi-link device probing method and a communication apparatus, which may be applied to a wireless local area network supporting the 802.11be standard. The method includes: A STA multi-link device generates a probe request frame, where the probe request frame carries first indication information used to indicate a first AP working on a first link in an AP multi-link device to feed back communication information of an AP that works on a second link and that is in the AP multi-link device, the communication information is used by the STA multi-link device to perform multi-link communication with the AP multi-link device, the second link is different from a first link; and the STA multi-link device sends the probe request frame on the first link.

Various embodiments herein disclose coordinating neighbor discovery between access points (APs) with auxiliary radios and APs without auxiliary radios. A corresponding wireless controller comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the controller to perform operations. The operations comprise grouping APs into a first group of more flexible APs and a second group of less flexible APs and querying the second group of APs for a corresponding broadcast interval. The operations further comprise identifying when the second group of APs is scheduled to broadcast parameters, and a broadcast interval for each of the second group of APs and generating a schedule based on the scheduled broadcast and the broadcast interval for each of the second group of APs. The operations additionally comprise providing the generated schedule to the first group of APs and the second group of APs.