Abbreviations

• BS - Base station
• CPE - Customer Premises Equipment
• MO - Mobile object
• LOS - Line of Sight (the first Fresnel zone is not overlapped)
  
• nLOS - Near Line of Sight (the first Fresnel zone is slightly overlapped)
• NLOS - Non-Line of Sight (the first Fresnel zone is significantly overlapped)

Introduction

Complex wireless network topologies require enhanced mechanisms to ensure fast packet transfer constantly adapting to the status of the radio connections, especially in cases with mobile objects. The radio link quality changes may lead to different transmission rates from couple of Mbps to hundreds of Mbps for the same link in different conditions. Thus, InfiNet’s proprietary MINT protocols offer an alternative routing method, by taking into account the network topology changes in real time and evaluating the quality of the radio links in real time. In addition to the routing capabilities, MINT includes a set of features that were designed for ensuring an efficient functionality of the InfiNet Wireless units.
This document describes main features of the MINT protocol to ensure deep understanding and, as a result, correct and effective configuration of the MINT network.