A method of establishing a routing path in a wireless network and a mobile wireless network system for identifying a routing path

摘要

A method of establishing a routing path (204) in a mobile wireless network, the method comprising: broadcasting (112) an initial routing request for a routing path (204) from a source node (202) to a destination node (206); retransmitting the initial routing request from each of a plurality of intermediate nodes (212) to the destination node (106), each of the intermediate nodes (212) having received the initial routing request; Tracking quality of service metric values (QoS metric values) for each of the intermediate nodes (212); Receiving a routing response originating at the destination node (206) at the source node (202), the routing response being routed along intermediate nodes (212) having the most favorable QoS metric values to define a routing path (204), and wherein each of the nodes (202 , 206, 212) is associated with a separate vehicle (202), and updating the QoS metric value based on a route quality vector while streaming multimedia data (208) over the routing path (204), the routing quality vector being included in the multimedia data (208) ,