Node and method for transmitting packets therefrom

Abstract

Disclosed are a node and a method of transmitting packets from the node. The disclosed node may use a directional antenna for transmitting a packet. The node includes a determining unit and a forwarding unit. The determining unit may determine whether or not there is an actor node present in a region traversed by a packet forwarding direction, where the packet forwarding direction is determined from relative-location information of a destination node with respect to a source node, the region is one of a plurality of regions divided by particular angles, and the plurality of regions have multiple beam patterns of the node formed therein. The forwarding unit may transmit the packet to an actor node present in the region traversed by the packet forwarding direction or transmit the packet to a neighbor node present in the region traversed by the packet forwarding direction.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.