APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING, REPORTING AND COLLECTING DESTINATION-NODE-BASED MEASUREMENTS AND ROUTE-BASED MEASUREMENTS

摘要

A multi-node communication system is disclosed that is used to request, report, and collect destination-node-based measurements and route-based measurements. The communication system may be a mesh network including a plurality of mesh points (MPs). In one embodiment, the destination-node-based measurement request is a destination-unicast, destination-multi, using routes specified by next-hop unicast, next-hop-multicast, or next-hop broadcast addressing. By cast, or destination-broadcast, to one or more destination nodes. In another embodiment, the source node sends a measurement request message to the final destination node, and each node on the path individually sends a measurement report message to the source node. Alternatively, the measurement results of each node are combined and appended to the measurement report message, and a measurement report message containing the combined measurement results is sent to the source node.;Destination-node-based measurement, path-based measurement, mesh network, mesh point (MP), measurement request message, measurement report message, source node, destination node, intermediate node