METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION LINKS AND FOR ESTIMATING OVERALL QUALITY OF A DIRECTIONAL LINK AND REPORTING TO OLSR IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A wireless communication network (10) includes a plurality of mobile nodes (12a-h) each including a transceiver (14), a phased array antenna (16) connected to the transceiver, and a controller (18) connected to the transceiver. The controller (18) discovers routes and routes communications to neighboring nodes (12a-h) with a routing protocol, e.g. an Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol. The controller (18) schedules time slots to establish a communication link (18e) with each neighboring mobile node (12), and the phased array antenna (16) is aimed (18c) by the controller (18) towards each neighboring mobile node (12) during communication therewith. Also, the controller estimates link quality (18h) based upon the quality of each time slot scheduled for the communication link and reports estimated link quality to the routing protocol (18i).